Tag: voting

BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday refused to comment on the allegation made by BSP chief Mayawati that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were "managed" to favour his party's win. ....

The Election Commission on Thursday reiterated that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were tamper proof and termed the allegations by some political parties as "baseless, speculative and wild".....

Around 47 per cent voting was registered in the Rajouri Garden assembly by-poll in Delhi on Sunday, officials said. ....

Amid tight security, 72.15 per cent of the over 1.95 lakh voters exercised their franchise in Jharkhand's Littipara assembly bypoll on Sunday, an election official said.....

Close to 82 per cent votes were cast in the Kanthi Dakshin assembly by-poll in West Bengal on Sunday.....

At least eight civilians were killed and scores injured in firing by security forces as mobs tried to attack some polling stations in Srinagar parliamentary constituency that on Sunday recorded a poor seven per cent voting in a by-poll-the lowest in the state in three decades, officials said.....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged the State Election Commission (SEC) not to use Generation 1 EVMs brought in from Rajastan during the upcoming civic polls, claiming they were all "clearly" tampered with.....

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) can be tampered with even before they are deployed.....

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a letter of intent to purchase 16,15,000 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) at an estimated cost of Rs 3,173.47 crore during 2017-18 and 2018-19 from central PSUs BEL and ECIL, an official statement said on Sunday.....

The victory of the BJP in Gujarat is a victory of "developmental politics" over dynasty and appeasement, BJP President Amit Shah said on Monday, attributing the party's lesser number of seats to the caste-based campaign of the Congress and its allies.....