Gandhinagar: The cooperative department of the state government has granted administrative approval to the purchase of EVM for the elections of Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMC). Gujarat has a total 240 APMCs. The elections are held for APMC for the 10 seats from farmers department, 4 seats from traders department and two seats from general voters union. The district registrar organises the elections of APMC. The printed ballot papers were used for the elections of APMC so far. Ho...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Congress Chief Jagdish Thakor on Thursday in his speech at the party function in Kadi in North Gujarat said that the congress party is equipped to protect the EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) this time and no fraud will occur. Thakor said, "Whatever number and type of machines (EVMs) they bring in. This time we have deployed such computer engineers that they're not going to succeed. We have put chowky over EVM from the factory to Gujarat, Election Commission office to th...Read More

રાજ્યમાં વિધાનસભા ચૂંટણી માટે તબક્કાવાર તૈયારીઓ શરૂ થઈ છે. તે અંતર્ગત બીજા તબક્કામાં ઈવીએમ અને વીવીપેટ ચકાસવાની કામગીરી શરૂ કરવામાં આવી છે. ચૂંટણી પ્રક્રિયાને વધુ ચોકસાઈપૂર્ણ બનાવવામાં ...Read More

Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs has alerted the State Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police regarding possibility of eruption of violence in different parts of the country in connection with the counting of votes tomorrow. MHA has asked the States and UTs to maintain law & order, peace and public tranquility. States/ UTs have been further asked to take adequate measures for the security of strong rooms and venues of counting of votes. This is in the wake of calls given a...Read More

New Delhi: Even as Congress has called the poll panel decision to reject the demand for VVPAT checking as 'Black Day' for democracy, BJP president Amit Shah said on Wednesday that the opposition parties are posing a question mark on the democratic process and maintained that opposing EVM is total disrespect to people's mandate. 'Opposing EVM is total disrespect to people's mandate. Rattled by their defeat, these 22 parties, by raising a question mark on the democratic process in the country a...Read More

Gandhinagar: Counting of votes for 26 Lok Sabha seats of Gujarat will take place at 28 centres across the State on May 23. The counting centres will have three-layer security provisions. Carrying mobile phones, laptop and other electronics devises will not be allowed inside the counting centres. 100 meter area around counting centres will be cordoned off. While main gates of counting centres will have armed police men deployed, the gates of counting halls will have deployment of para military fo...Read More

New Delhi: Election Commission of India(ECI) today in a statement said: Certain complaints of alleged movement of EVMs, purportedly to replace the polled EVMs in the strongrooms, have been doing the rounds in sections of media. Election Commission of India would like to emphatically and unambiguously clarify that all such reports and allegations are absolutely false, and factually incorrect. The visuals seen viral on media do not pertain to any EVMs used during the polls. After the close of p...Read More

By Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar: In almost every TV debate on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), Congress friends mention it that BJP leaders LK Advani, Subramanian Swamy and GVL Narsimharao had on some point of time (starting from year 2010) opposed EVMs and that EVMs need to be abolished. Presented below are the facts pertaining to Advani, Swamy and GVL's stand on EVM issue. All we can conclude is they had raised the issue of EVM reforms and not scraping of EVM system. What Advani had said a...Read More

New Delhi: In the wake of the motivated controversy about ECI EVMs, attempted to be created by one so called ‘cyber expert’ Mr Syed Shuja, the Technical Experts Committee (TEC) members - Prof D T Shahani, Prof Emeritus IIT Delhi and Prof Rajat Moona, Director IIT Bhilai and Prof D K Sharma, Prof Emeritus IIT Bombay (Mumbai), have reconfirmed to the ECI today that : The ECI-EVMs are stand-alone machines designed to connect only amongst ECI-EVM units (Ballot Unit, Control Unit and V...Read More