Lok Sabha elections 2019: Counting tomorrow, VVPAT may delay results

This is for the first time in a Lok Sabha election that results of voting machines will be matched with slips generated by paper trail machines

Checking of votes in favor of Lok Sabha surveys Thursday, coordinating VVPAT slips prone to defer results New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Counting of votes in favor of the Lok Sabha decisions, in which more than 8,000 applicants were in the quarrel for 542 seats, will start at 8.00 am Thursday and results are normal just by late night due to counting of voter confirmed paper review trail slips with EVM mean the first run through.

67.11 percent of the 90.99 crore balloters had made their choice in the seven stage elections.This is the most elevated ever-voter turnout in Indian parliamentarian races. This is without precedent for a Lok Sabha race that aftereffects of casting a ballot machines will be coordinated with slips created by paper trail machines.

The activity will happen in five surveying stations for each get together portion which successfully implies that out of about 10.3 lakh surveying stations, the EVM-VVPAT coordinating will occur in 20600 such stations. The Election Commission is yet to give the quantity of checking focuses being set up for Thursday, saying the information isn’t halfway accessible. According to strategy, postal tallies would be the first to be checked.

Administration voters remained at 18 lakh. These incorporate work force of the military, focal police power faculty and state police staff who are posted outside their voting public. Negotiators and care staff posted in Indian international safe havens abroad are likewise considered administration voters. Out of 18 lakh enrolled voters, 16.49 lakh have sent their postal polls to their individual returning officers as on May 17. The activity of tallying postal polls physically will itself take a few hours in any event, an EC official said…

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Election result: SC dismisses PIL on 100% matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs

SC dismisses PIL seeking 100 % matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs during vote counting on May 23

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expelled a PIL looking for 100 percent coordinating of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid tallying of votes on May 23 for Lok Sabha surveys.

A get-away seat headed by Justice Arun Mishra wouldn’t engage the request documented by a Chennai-based association ‘Tech for All’, saying that a bigger seat headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had just managed the issue and passed a request “The CJI had managed this issue. For what reason are you bringing chance under the steady gaze of a two-judge get-away seat,” the zenith court inquired. Likewise READ: Cannot censure EC, decisions directed splendidly: Pranab Mukherjee

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“We can’t abrogate the CJI’s structure… This is garbage. The appeal is accepted. Rejected,” Justice Mishra said. The peak court had on May 7 expelled an audit supplication documented by 21 Opposition pioneers driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu looking for that arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs be expanded to 50 percent.

The top court had on April 8 guided the Election Commission to expand arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five surveying stalls for each gathering section in Lok Sabha surveys, saying it would give more prominent fulfillment to ideological groups as well as to the whole electorate…

Punjab: Repolling ordered at 48 polling stations on Feb 9 over VVPAT snag

EC had used VVPAT for the first time in Punjab at 6,668 polling stations in 33 assembly segments

 

The Punjab Election 2017  on Tuesday ordered repolling in 48 polling stations falling in Majitha, Muktsar and Sangrur assembly segments in Punjab following malfunctioning in the Voter-Verified Audit Paper Trail (VVPAT) EVMs on February4.

The repolling will take place on February 9.

Besides, the repolling will also take place at polling stations in Moga and Sardulgarh segments where EVMs displayed the votes polled during mock polls.

"The repolling will take place at 48 polling stations because of the malfunctioning in VVPAT on polling day. The repolling will take place on February 9," Punjab Chief Electoral Officer V K Singh said in Chandigarh on Tuesday.

He said polling stations where the repolling shall take place are in Majitha, Muktsar and Sangrur assembly segments where VVPAT developed snag.

Singh further said that repolling would also be held at polling stations in Moga and Sardulgarh assembly segments.

The repolling has been ordered at 32 polling stations of Majitha (12), Muktsar (9), Sangrur (6), Moga (1) and Sardulgarh (4) and 16 polling stations of Amritsar Lok Sabha bye-election, an official said.

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