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The top court is hearing a petition concerning the cross-verification of votes cast in electronic voting machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
Polling for the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election will be held on electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the DUSU panel and on paper ballots for the college students' unions, according to a notice issued by the DU's chief election officer on Monday. "This is to inform Principals/Directors/Heads of all colleges/institutes/departments affiliated with DUSU that EVMs would be provided only for DUSU 2023 elections. The college students' election will be held by paper ballots that have to be procured, printed and managed entirely by the college itself," the notice said. The election to the students' body of the Delhi University is slated to be held on September 22, after a gap of four years. The DUSU election was last held in 2019. The DUSU election could not be held in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID-19, while possible disruptions to the academic calendar prevented its conduct in 2022. According to the DU, September 12 is the last date for submitting nomination papers, ...
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a plea on Monday, i.e., October 31 that sought direction to the Election Commission to remove symbols from ballot and EVMs
Besides the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded 40 candidates, giving added importance to the polls
The ECI on Saturday announced the schedule for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Manipur and Uttarakhand
Staqu will deploy its proprietary Video Analytics system, powered by advanced AI, to count votes directly from the camera by monitoring the EVM screens at the counting centre
National Secretary and Bengal BJP leader Rahul Sinha said that the state machinery openly helped the ruling Trinamool Congress and that they will report this to the Election Commission
The Congress had fielded Phule from the Bahraich parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, but she failed to retain her seat and lost to the BJP nominee
He said simultaneous elections were in practice in the country till 1967, before a "cyclic imbalance" was created due to dissolution of some state assemblies, among other reasons.
He was replying to a question on the opposition demand for going back to the paper ballot system
EVM controversy has irked one of its manufacturers, Bharat Electronics
The EVM challenge is expected to remain open four to five days and will be conducted in two stages
Replacement of internal circuit of EVMs is not possible, says CEC Nasim Zaidi
The issue is likely to be discussed in Union Cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning
BSP, AAP and Congress had attacked the Election Commission for allegedly using tampered EVMs
EVM itself was introduced to stop practices and larger evils like booth capturing and others: SC
Sources said commission announced similar challenge in 2009 and no one could hack the EVMs
These will come with a public key interface-based mutual authentication system
In a letter to the ECI, the Congress asked the poll panel to 'revert to paper ballot'