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Opposition tirade against EC undermines 11-layer 'technical security', 12-tier procedural safeguards, VVPAT, judgments upholding EVMs
Shishir Tripathi •It was only after several procedural deliberations that EVMs were accepted and has been used since 2000. In close to two decades of its existence, EVM has been used in more than 110 elections, starting from state legislative Assemblies and four Lok Sabha elections (since 2009), including the current one.
Daily Bulletin: EVM row dominates discourse ahead of counting, Naidu strives to unite Opposition front, ISRO launches RISAT-2B; day's top stories
Fp Staff •A day ahead of counting, controversy over EVMs rages on as does the Opposition's efforts to consolidate an anti-NDA front, even as exit poll predicts a comfortable win for BJP, ISRO launched earth observation satellite RISAT-2B; day's top stories
Lok Sabha election: Voters can get real-time updates on vote counting through EC portals on 23 May
Fp Staff •As the Election Commission gears up for the final phase of the Lok Sabha election due on 19 May, voters are looking forward to the result-day on 23 May, which will appoint India's 17th Lok Sabha in Parliament.
Lok Sabha election 2019: Uttar Pradesh's voters on what they know of NOTA, and if they would use it
Khabar Lahariya •KL travelled across Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends the most MPs to Parliament, to ask voters if they knew about the ‘NOTA’ option on the Electronic Voting Machine — an opportunity to select “None Of The Above” if the candidates were not up to scratch.
EVM, VVPAT glitches reported across country as polling gets underway for second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha election
•According to the Election Commission, a voter turnout of 69.43 percent was recorded in phase one of elections in eighteen states and two Union Territories held on 11 April.
EVMs are ‘information’, can be demanded from Election Commission under RTI Act, rules CIC
•An EVM is ‘information’ under the Right to Information Act and can be demanded by an applicant from the Election Commission of India on a payment of Rs 10
VS Sampath says first prove that EVMs can be manipulated; on National Voters Day, ex-CEC supports empowering NOTA
Aprameyar •With the Opposition raising concerns over alleged manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Election Commission is facing one of the toughest challenges in the last seven decades.
Electronic Voting Machine and its history with India: Controversy over EVMs malfunctioning, rigging allegations are not new
Fp Staff •EVMs were used on an experimental basis for the first time in elections to 16 Assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh (5), Rajasthan (5) and Delhi (6) held in November, 1998. The 2004 Lok Sabha election was conducted entirely on EVMs
Electronic Voting Machines could be hacked, but casting aspersions on instrument without proper proof is unjustified
Pragati •Influencing an election by hacking EVMs would require a small army of dedicated agents.
Election Commission says its EVMs are 'foolproof', mulls legal action against US-based cyber expert who raised hacking allegation
•Amid claims by an Indian cyber expert that electronic voting machines (EVMs) can be hacked, the Election Commission asserted on Monday that it firmly stands by "empirical facts about foolproof nature" of its machines, and said it is examining as to what legal action "can and should" be taken in the matter.