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What is EVM ?

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What is EVM ?

An electronic voting machine (EVM) is a portable instrument for the purpose of conducting elections to the parliament, legislature and local bodies like panchayats and municipalities.
 
EVM is a microcontroller-based instrument designed to modernise the election procedure and there is no scope for invalid votes and total secrecy of voting data is maintained and it also facilitates quick and accurate counting. The voting data recorded in EVMs can be retained for years and can be extracted if necessary.
 
The Electronic Voting Machine is a reliable system to conduct elections where one person has to be elected out of many candidates. The EVM
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Cong should understand blaming EVMs won't help, says Pralhad Joshi

It cannot be that the Congress celebrates its win in polls held through the machines and then raises questions on their reliability when it loses, Joshi said

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Updated On : 16 Dec 2024 | 2:34 PM IST

EVM verification plea should go before bench that gave verdict in April: SC

In its verdict on April 26, the apex court termed the suspicion of manipulation of the EVMs unfounded

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Updated On : 13 Dec 2024 | 1:46 PM IST

Prohibitory orders, security in place as Maharashtra village plans 'repoll'

Village comes under the Malshiras assembly constituency, where NCP (SP) candidate Uttam Jankar defeated BJP's Ram Satpute by 13,147 votes in the November 20 state polls

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Updated On : 03 Dec 2024 | 2:45 PM IST

Police deployed after Maha villagers urge 're-election' with ballot papers

The Malshiras sub-divisional magistrate on Monday imposed prohibitory orders, under section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, from December 2 to 5 in the area to avoid any conflict or law

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Updated On : 03 Dec 2024 | 10:28 AM IST

MVA candidates to seek EVM verification after Maharashtra poll loss

Many losing candidates of the Shiv Sena (UBT) pointed fingers at the functioning of the EVMs during their interaction with party head Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday

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Updated On : 27 Nov 2024 | 10:49 AM IST

Maharashtra Assembly polls: 40 booked for vandalising booths, EVMs in Beed

The case was registered at Ambajogai Rural police station, around 220 km from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

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Updated On : 21 Nov 2024 | 2:06 PM IST

Congress workers attack car transporting EVM after polling in Nagpur

incident took place in the Killa area of Central Nagpur constituency when polling officials were transporting the EVM from booth number 268 to the designated strong room in a car

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Updated On : 21 Nov 2024 | 9:51 AM IST

Election Commission to conduct mock polls to check EVMs post LS polls

The EC received eight applications for verification of EVMs used in the 18th Lok Sabha elections and three for the Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha

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Updated On : 16 Jul 2024 | 12:33 PM IST

Samajwadi Party's Ayodhya win was 'Ram's will': Akhilesh Yadav in Lok Sabha

Akhilesh Yadav says that INDIA bloc's win in 2024 Lok Sabha elections marked the end of communal politics in India, while speaking in Parliament

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Updated On : 02 Jul 2024 | 2:24 PM IST

EC should invite Musk to attempt hacking EVMs, says Andhra BJP chief

According to the state BJP chief, despite "numerous opportunities provided by the Election Commission, no one has succeeded yet'

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Updated On : 17 Jun 2024 | 10:04 PM IST

SC, EC need to take drastic decision on EVM irregularities, says AAP

AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said that his party has been raising the incidents of irregularities related to the EVMs for long but were mocked by the BJP

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Updated On : 17 Jun 2024 | 8:01 PM IST

Ensure full transparency of EVMs or abolish them: Rahul Gandhi to EC

The demand came a day after the Congress leader had alleged that the electronic voting machine is a "black box" and nobody is allowed to scrutinise them

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Updated On : 17 Jun 2024 | 11:14 PM IST

Mumbai poll official refutes news on mobile phone-EVM link, calls it false

Mangesh Pandilkar, brother-in-law of Waikar was booked on Wednesday for allegedly using a mobile phone at a counting centre on June 4

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Updated On : 16 Jun 2024 | 7:27 PM IST

Counting of votes begins for 32 Assembly seats in Sikkim amid high security

Postal ballots will be taken up first for counting while votes in the EVMs will be counted later, officials said

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Updated On : 02 Jun 2024 | 7:09 AM IST

LS polls: MLA breaks EVM, attacks polling officer inside booth in Odisha

BJP's Khurda assembly segment candidate Prasant Jagdev, who is the sitting MLA of Chilika, was detained for allegedly barging into the booth along with his followers

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Updated On : 25 May 2024 | 10:55 PM IST

LS elections: EVM related complaints from some polling stations in Delhi

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat said she came to vote, but the officials said that the EVM battery was down and she had to wait for half an hour

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Updated On : 25 May 2024 | 10:16 PM IST

LS polls: 45,576 EVMs at 20,031 polling stations in Haryana, says officer

In view of the prevailing severe heatwave conditions, all basic facilities and other necessary arrangements have been made in all the polling stations

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Updated On : 23 May 2024 | 7:09 AM IST

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Updated On : 27 Apr 2024 | 12:04 AM IST

Supreme Court questions ECI on five technical aspects of EVM-VVPAT case

The top court is hearing a petition concerning the cross-verification of votes cast in electronic voting machines with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail

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Updated On : 24 Apr 2024 | 11:52 AM IST

Polling for DUSU panel on EVMs; paper ballots for students' unions

Polling for the DUSU election will be held on electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the DUSU panel and on paper ballots for the college students' unions

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Updated On : 04 Sep 2023 | 7:58 PM IST