37 per cent students turn out for DUSU pollsSeptember 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a controversy filled Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections this year, a total of 37 per cent students on Friday voted for the post of President, Vice-President, Secretary and Joint Secretary. "The polls were peaceful and recorded a turnout of 37 per cent.
Poll panel allows petitioners to show EVM's tamperbilityAugust 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Monday met petitioners who have filed cases in courts across the country challenging the efficacy of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and agreed to offer machines so they could demonstrate their claims of tamperability. We met the Election Commission and demanded it offer us EVMs to demonstrate that these can be tampered with.
EVMs are tamper-proof, says poll panelJuly 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Sunday asserted the electronic voting machines being used to conduct the polls in the country were tamper-proof and reliable, as it replied to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani's apprehensions on the gadgets.
Advani's comments on EVMs stretch of imagination: CongressJuly 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ruling Congress party Sunday dismissed as a stretch of imagination Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani's comments that India should revert to the ballot paper for elections unless adequate safeguards are in place to guard against malfunctioning Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
Andhra strong room key lost, officials break in for EVMMay 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Election officials in Andhra Pradesh had to break open the door of a strong room containing the electronic voting machines (EVMs) as the key went missing Saturday morning. As the officials reached the strong room in Kamareddy in Nizamabad district to break open the seal and take out EVMs, they were surprised to learn that the key was missing.
Poll panel to probe EVM malfunctioning in West BengalMay 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Election Commission will probe into the malfunctioning of EVMs in 101 polling booths of a Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal Wednesday, prompting the poll in these booths to be deferred to Thursday. 'We'll order an investigation into the matter and also seek a clarification from the district administration as to how the EVMs were damaged by rain and found faulty on the polling day,' West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Debashis Sen told reporters here.
Mock counting of votes held in Andhra PradeshMay 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Mock counting of votes was held Sunday in 106 centres across Andhra Pradesh as the election authorities checked the preparedness for the counting to be taken up May 16. Chief Electoral Officer I.V.
Special EVMs for Sikkim's Buddhist monks, nunsApril 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission has provided special electronic voting machines (EVMs) at all polling stations in Sikkim to enable Buddhist monks and nuns to vote from anywhere, Deputy Election Commissioner J.P. Prakash said here Tuesday.
Paramilitary forces should guard EVMs in Jharkhand: BJPApril 28th, 2009 RANCHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jharkhand Monday demanded that paramilitary forces be deployed at all the strongrooms in the state where electronic voting machines (EVM) have been kept after two phases of polling. 'Why has the state police been deployed at strongrooms where the sealed EVMs are kept? We suspect the machines could be tampered with to help candidates of the Congress and JMM (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha),' state BJP president Raghubar Das told IANS.
Now learn to use EVM on YouTubeApril 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Going all guns to attract voters in the national capital for the Lok Sabha elections, the state Election Office has uploaded a video on using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) on popular video-sharing website YouTube. 'Sometimes people are confused and unaware of how to use EVMs.
Now learn to use EVM on YouTubeApril 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Going all guns to attract voters in the national capital for the Lok Sabha elections, the state Election Office has uploaded a video on using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) on popular video-sharing website YouTube. 'Sometimes people are confused and unaware of how to use EVMs.
Prominent politicians whose electoral fate was sealedApril 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prominent politicians whose electoral fate was sealed Thursday in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls:
Andhra Pradesh
Chevella: S. Jaipal Reddy (Congress)
Khammam: Renuka Chowdhury (Congress)
Mahabubnagar: K.
Made in India EVMs in demand abroadApril 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bhutan got them for its elections last year and Nepal has acquired them too. Indian-made Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are making waves abroad, not just in our neighbourhood but right up to the African continent.
Improved EVMs to make voting tamper proof in this electionMarch 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) has just got smarter. It not only does the obvious - record your vote - but also notes the exact time you cast it.
Things you did not know about EVMs - but were afraid to askMarch 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Did you know that the use of electronic voting machines, or EVMs, results in the saving of nearly 10,000 tonnes of paper that in turn preserves forests where trees are cut down to produce paper?
About 7,700 tonnes of paper was used for printing of ballot papers in the 1999 general elections, whereas 8,800 tonnes of paper was used for the purpose in the 1996 general elections. With the electorate going up steadily, more than 10,000 tonnes of paper would have to be used for this general election if there had been no EVMs.
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