Gujarat Assembly Elections Evms

A Congress candidate in Gujarat dramatically tied a "noose" around his neck to protest what he alleged was tampering of EVMs or voting machines during counting.

Ahead of Assembly elections in Gujarat, the residents of Ancheli and 17 other villages of Navsari Assembly constituency have hung banners to boycott the polls and ban political leaders from entering the villages to campaign.

As it became clear that the BJP has won Gujarat again, Hardik Patel alleged that EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines were tampered with. He then sequestered himself at his apartment block in Ahmedabad's Silaj and messaged journalists that he would meet no one on Monday.

Nearly 2 per cent of voters in Gujarat chose to exercise the "NOTA" or "None Of the Above" option - the last button in an Electronic Voting Machine that helps on reject all the candidates in the fray. The percentage of voters was more than the votes received five of the seven parties contesting the assembly elections.

Hardik Patel, the young activist deemed to be the Congress's trump card in the Gujarat election, alleged the tampering of EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines today as the BJP headed towards its fifth straight term in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

Former Chief Election Commissioner TS Krishnamurthy said today that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are the "real winner" in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections and their "bashing" should stop now.

As the counting of votes in the Gujarat assembly elections in the early hours showed a neck and neck battle between the BJP and the Congress, Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti said there was no question of EVM tampering in the elections.

The Wi-Fi service at a college in Surat was suspended after the Congress candidate from the Kamrej Assembly seat complained of possible hacking and tampering with the electronic voting machines (EVMs), used in the recently held Gujarat Assembly polls, kept on its campus.

Gujarat - a key state that witnessed bitter political campaign amid allegations by the opposition of electronic voting machine (EVM) tampering will give its verdict on December 18. The votes for the 182-seat state assembly will counted on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the face of the BJP's campaign in his home state in what is seen as a ...

The Supreme Court today refused to interfere in the Gujarat election counting and rejected the Congress's request to match the votes cast with the paper trail (VVPAT) of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

In a lapse, officials posted in Dediapada constituency in Gujarat's Narmada district during the first phase of polls yesterday "forgot" a "spare" VVPAT EVM unit in a private jeep while returning to Rajpipala, a senior officer said today.

Voting is underway for the first phase of polling in state assembly polls today. As many as 1,828 candidates are trying their luck in the two-phased assembly polls, and 397 candidates are crorepatis, according to an analysis of the election affidavits done by two NGOs.

Amid allegations by the Congress that electronic voting machines or EVMs malfunctioned in several parts of Gujarat in the first phase of assembly elections today, the Election Commission said on Saturday afternoon that about 0.3 per cent of the total ballot units and control units - which make up the EVM - had to be replaced during voting. That is ...

The Congress is making no bones about its concerns of election rigging in Gujarat. The party has not only gone to great lengths to tackle any possible attempt to tamper electronic voting machines or EVMs but also made a special request to the Election Commission.

Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti today said Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) gadgets with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) would be used for next month's Assembly polls in Gujarat and in all future elections.

A Congress candidate in Gujarat dramatically tied a "noose" around his neck to protest what he alleged was tampering of EVMs or voting machines during counting.

Ahead of Assembly elections in Gujarat, the residents of Ancheli and 17 other villages of Navsari Assembly constituency have hung banners to boycott the polls and ban political leaders from entering the villages to campaign.

As it became clear that the BJP has won Gujarat again, Hardik Patel alleged that EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines were tampered with. He then sequestered himself at his apartment block in Ahmedabad's Silaj and messaged journalists that he would meet no one on Monday.

Nearly 2 per cent of voters in Gujarat chose to exercise the "NOTA" or "None Of the Above" option - the last button in an Electronic Voting Machine that helps on reject all the candidates in the fray. The percentage of voters was more than the votes received five of the seven parties contesting the assembly elections.

Hardik Patel, the young activist deemed to be the Congress's trump card in the Gujarat election, alleged the tampering of EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines today as the BJP headed towards its fifth straight term in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

Former Chief Election Commissioner TS Krishnamurthy said today that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are the "real winner" in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections and their "bashing" should stop now.

As the counting of votes in the Gujarat assembly elections in the early hours showed a neck and neck battle between the BJP and the Congress, Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti said there was no question of EVM tampering in the elections.

The Wi-Fi service at a college in Surat was suspended after the Congress candidate from the Kamrej Assembly seat complained of possible hacking and tampering with the electronic voting machines (EVMs), used in the recently held Gujarat Assembly polls, kept on its campus.

Gujarat - a key state that witnessed bitter political campaign amid allegations by the opposition of electronic voting machine (EVM) tampering will give its verdict on December 18. The votes for the 182-seat state assembly will counted on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the face of the BJP's campaign in his home state in what is seen as a ...

The Supreme Court today refused to interfere in the Gujarat election counting and rejected the Congress's request to match the votes cast with the paper trail (VVPAT) of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

In a lapse, officials posted in Dediapada constituency in Gujarat's Narmada district during the first phase of polls yesterday "forgot" a "spare" VVPAT EVM unit in a private jeep while returning to Rajpipala, a senior officer said today.

Voting is underway for the first phase of polling in state assembly polls today. As many as 1,828 candidates are trying their luck in the two-phased assembly polls, and 397 candidates are crorepatis, according to an analysis of the election affidavits done by two NGOs.

Amid allegations by the Congress that electronic voting machines or EVMs malfunctioned in several parts of Gujarat in the first phase of assembly elections today, the Election Commission said on Saturday afternoon that about 0.3 per cent of the total ballot units and control units - which make up the EVM - had to be replaced during voting. That is ...

The Congress is making no bones about its concerns of election rigging in Gujarat. The party has not only gone to great lengths to tackle any possible attempt to tamper electronic voting machines or EVMs but also made a special request to the Election Commission.

Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti today said Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) gadgets with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) would be used for next month's Assembly polls in Gujarat and in all future elections.