On Friday, EC in an affidavit told the court that there is no need to increase VVPAT count to match it with EVM.
01 Apr 2019 12:11 PM
The panel has also been served a contempt notice by the top court for not following its order on candidates declaring their criminal antecedents.
31 Mar 2019 12:00 AM
The EC said there is no ground for altering the existing system of random counting of the VVPAT slips.
30 Mar 2019 6:45 AM
The poll panel justified the existing system of random counting of the VVPAT slips from one polling booth per assembly segment.
29 Mar 2019 1:31 PM
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta asked the commission to file an affidavit on this by 4 pm on Thursday.
26 Mar 2019 2:13 AM
SC directed EC to file reply by March 28 if it can increase the number of VVPAT sample survey in each assembly segment for 2019 elections.
25 Mar 2019 1:29 PM
The court had on Friday sought EC's response on the plea led by Andhra Pradesh CM for a check of the VVPAT slips.
20 Mar 2019 3:52 PM
The Election Commission said we will hand over the machine for examination and they said they had their own machine built on the same pattern.
19 Mar 2019 5:55 AM
With the nearing of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the petitioners want more safety norms and strict standards for EVMs.
14 Mar 2019 7:38 PM
A bamboozling theory about the electronic tampering of unique stand-alone machines will not suffice for us to get too serious the wild accusations.
23 Jan 2019 1:24 AM
Thackeray said that allegations that EVMs are being tampered with have been confirmed in all subsequent polls.
31 Aug 2018 2:25 AM
The Congress also raised the issue of women’s reservation in the Parliament and state legislatures and that of electoral bonds.
28 Aug 2018 1:04 AM
Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat dismisses the claims on VVPAT as a ‘canard’.
06 Aug 2018 12:45 AM
The VVPATs’ failure rate exceeding 20 per cent is a symptom of the disease, that is technical in nature and can be tackled.
31 May 2018 12:42 AM
Around 25,476 personnel will be deployed at 4,246 polling stations.
27 May 2018 2:06 AM
8 boxes used for carrying VVPAT machines have been found at a shed in a village in Vijayapura district,
22 May 2018 8:33 AM
Congress had filed a plea seeking directions to the EC to cross verify at least 25 per cent of VVPAT with votes cast with EVM.
15 Dec 2017 4:24 PM
District Collector and Election Officer RS Ninama claimed that EVM unit was 'spare' one and was not used in polling for Dediapada seat.
11 Dec 2017 11:28 AM
The Election Commission has also requested for an additional 4,150 VVPATs to replace the defective ones and to keep some as reserve.
09 Dec 2017 11:28 AM
The notice is a result of doubt on the reliability of EVMs and a petition by a member of Jan Chetna Party from Surat.
20 Nov 2017 3:20 PM