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Bolsonaro contests Brazil election loss, wants votes voided
•More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s nation’s electronic voting machines
UP Assembly polls: SP shares vid of Varanasi official admitting EVM protocol 'lapses'; official likely to be suspended
Fp Staff •Varanasi's Commissioner Deepak Agarwal kept saying that the EVMs that were moved were only for training purposes, however, he appears to admit towards the end that there was a breach in protocol in the transportation of the EVMs
‘Allow me euthanasia if demand not met’: Chhattisgarh CM's father writes to President over ballot papers
•Bhupesh Baghel's father Nand Kumar Baghel urged President Ram Nath Kovind to issue an order to conduct elections using ballot papers in place of EVMs in the larger interest of healthy democracy
NCP writes to Maharashtra election commission seeking order to stop internet services around polling booths, claims EVMs can be 'hacked'
•The NCP wrote to the Maharashtra State Election Commission seeking an order to stop internet services within a three-kilometre radius of every poll booth and strong room in the poll-bound state.
EC terms reports of 'ghost voters' in recent polls incorrect, says data published on website is 'provisional'
•'The provisional voter turnout data reported on ECI website is only the tentative number of voters and not the final numbers,' the EC said.
Suprme Court dismisses PIL seeking VVPAT verfication of all EVM votes, terms it 'nuisance'
•A vacation bench of the apex court headed by Justice Arun Mishra, and comprising Justice MR Shah did not find any merit in the petition.
Lok Sabha election 2019: N Chandrababu Naidu urges Election Commission to verify 50% EVMs using VVPAT slips
•This comes ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on a petition filed by 21 Opposition parties, led by Naidu, to review its judgment rejecting 50 percent random physical verification of EVMs using VVPAT.
Supreme Court junks Opposition's review plea seeking to increase VVPAT verification to 50%, says 'not inclined to modify order'
Fp Staff •Singhvi said that the Election Commission has no guidelines regarding the VVPAT-EVM verification, and that if the court would not issue guidelines to the poll watchdog, the court's order would be impractical to implement.
Lok Sabha election 2019: EC orders re-polling in five booth in Andhra Pradesh on 6 May along with fifth phase of voting
•The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed officials to conduct re-elections at five polling stations in Andhra Pradesh on 6 May. Voting will be held in polling booths located in Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore districts, the ECI said in a letter dated 1 May.
LS polls: 21 Opposition parties move SC over EVM malfunctions, demand at least 50% votes be verified by VVPAT
Fp Staff •This comes after the issue of malfunctioning EVMs came to a boil once again Tuesday, during the third phase of polling, when several EVMs reportedly malfunctioned