Voting Machines

Congress allegations about a mismatch in the numbers of stored Electronic Voting Machine units have been rubbished by the Chief Electoral Officer of Chhattisgarh.

A BJP candidate was arrested in Odisha's Khurda district for allegedly vandalising an EVM as he had to wait in queue for a long to cast his vote because the machine malfunctioned, officials said on Sunday.

A video titled Congress MLA breaks voting machine due to fear of an impending defeat (translated from Malayalam) has gone viral on social media showing several men smashing an EVM (electronic voting machine) inside a polling booth.

More than a week after polling in Andhra Pradesh, video footage of an MLA of the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) damaging an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in a polling booth has emerged.

The police have registered a case against spiritual leader Shantigiri Maharaj, an independent candidate, for allegedly violating the model code of conduct after he garlanded the EVM enclosure while exercising his franchise in the Nashik Lok Sabha

A viral post on social media has claimed that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were used for the first time in the country in 2009 under the Congress-led government.

The CCTV cameras at the strongroom where Electronic Voting machines were stored for the Baramati Lok Sabha Constituency, was switched off for 45 minutes, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) has alleged.

India's elections and atom bombs have an umbilical connect, the same facilities which make Electronic Voting Machines (EVM's) also helped make the bombs at Pokhran.

The EC on Wednesday ordered repolling at four booths in Madhya Pradesh's Betul Lok Sabha seat on May 10 after electronic voting machines were damaged when a bus ferrying them and polling personnel post-voting caught fire, an official said.

A bus carrying polling officials and electronic voting machines caught fire in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district, causing damage to a few EVMs, according to a senior official.

In a shocker, a man poured petrol and set afire at least three electronic voting machines at a polling station in Maharashtra's Bagalwadi village of the Madha Lok Sabha constituency, here on Tuesday afternoon.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday urged the people of Goa to vote for INDIA bloc candidates in the Lok Sabha elections "to protect democracy, diversity, stop corruption and 'washing machine politics'".

A video of a man showing an allegedly malfunctioning Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that appears to show votes going to a party different from the one the voter polled for is now viral amid the ongoing general elections.

The Supreme Court's massive vote of confidence to EVM machines today also came with a precautionary measure -- the sealing of a crucial part of VVPAT machines and enabling the first and second runners-up in an election to challenge the outcome.

The Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) has always been mired in controversies-with debates heating up around the time of elections. Unfortunately, S. Rangarajan, the man who designed the EVM, is no longer here to defend the device.

Congress allegations about a mismatch in the numbers of stored Electronic Voting Machine units have been rubbished by the Chief Electoral Officer of Chhattisgarh.

A BJP candidate was arrested in Odisha's Khurda district for allegedly vandalising an EVM as he had to wait in queue for a long to cast his vote because the machine malfunctioned, officials said on Sunday.

A video titled Congress MLA breaks voting machine due to fear of an impending defeat (translated from Malayalam) has gone viral on social media showing several men smashing an EVM (electronic voting machine) inside a polling booth.

More than a week after polling in Andhra Pradesh, video footage of an MLA of the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) damaging an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in a polling booth has emerged.

The police have registered a case against spiritual leader Shantigiri Maharaj, an independent candidate, for allegedly violating the model code of conduct after he garlanded the EVM enclosure while exercising his franchise in the Nashik Lok Sabha

A viral post on social media has claimed that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were used for the first time in the country in 2009 under the Congress-led government.

The CCTV cameras at the strongroom where Electronic Voting machines were stored for the Baramati Lok Sabha Constituency, was switched off for 45 minutes, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) has alleged.

India's elections and atom bombs have an umbilical connect, the same facilities which make Electronic Voting Machines (EVM's) also helped make the bombs at Pokhran.

The EC on Wednesday ordered repolling at four booths in Madhya Pradesh's Betul Lok Sabha seat on May 10 after electronic voting machines were damaged when a bus ferrying them and polling personnel post-voting caught fire, an official said.

A bus carrying polling officials and electronic voting machines caught fire in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district, causing damage to a few EVMs, according to a senior official.

In a shocker, a man poured petrol and set afire at least three electronic voting machines at a polling station in Maharashtra's Bagalwadi village of the Madha Lok Sabha constituency, here on Tuesday afternoon.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday urged the people of Goa to vote for INDIA bloc candidates in the Lok Sabha elections "to protect democracy, diversity, stop corruption and 'washing machine politics'".

A video of a man showing an allegedly malfunctioning Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that appears to show votes going to a party different from the one the voter polled for is now viral amid the ongoing general elections.

The Supreme Court's massive vote of confidence to EVM machines today also came with a precautionary measure -- the sealing of a crucial part of VVPAT machines and enabling the first and second runners-up in an election to challenge the outcome.

The Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) has always been mired in controversies-with debates heating up around the time of elections. Unfortunately, S. Rangarajan, the man who designed the EVM, is no longer here to defend the device.