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Adopting ingenious measures to prevent VVPAT failures: EC Chief O P Rawat

The Election Commission's technical expert committee carried out 'root cause analysis'.

Heavy exposure to illumination led to VVPAT glitch in Kairana bypoll: EC

Over 11 per cent VVPATs were replaced during the bypolls.

EVMs with VVPAT will be introduced in Lok Sabha Elections 2019: EC

The Election Commission today convened an all-party meeting over the issue of EVM

EC to get 30,000 VVPAT machines for Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh polls

Several parties have been pressing for the use of VVPAT machines to dispel doubts of EVM tampering

Future Lok Sabha polls to see paper audit of vote at cost of Rs 3,200 cr

Amid complaints that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) couldbe rigged and the voter never got to know which candidate he had actually votedfor, the Union Cabinet today sanctioned Rs 3200 crore over the next two years toenable the Election Commission of India (ECI) to procure voting machines thatuse Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) Units for use in the 2019general elections. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati and Aam AadmiParty (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, whose parties have posted a less thansatisfactory electoral performance in the last round of assembly elections hadcomplained that votes cast by their supporters had not been correctly recordedby EVMs. They had demanded that VVPAT machines be installed all over India.VVPAT machines produce a printout of the vote cast using anEVM, which can be shown to the voter to dispel any doubts. This printout isthen deposited in a box and can be used to resolve any dispute regarding theelection. In 2013, the Supreme Court had ...