(MENAFN- IANS) Kolkata, Nov 20 (IANS) With West Bengal gearing up for next year's crucial Assembly elections, training for checking electronic voting machines (EVMs) and voter-verifiable paper audit ...

Hearing petitions seeking cross-verification of votes cast on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) with paper slips generated through the VVPAT system, the Supreme Court today pointed to problems with the ...

India, the world's largest democracy, conducts elections on a massive scale. To expedite the process, ensure fairness, and increase transparency, the Election Commission of India (ECI) utilises ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Kolkata, Nov 21 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Friday, has decided to invite representatives of different political parties registered with the commission to be ...

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday (November 7, 2025) issued a notice to the Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) on a petition challenging its decision to conduct local body ...

The Electronic Voting (EVM) Machines and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which will be used in the upcoming Assembly elections, were taken on Tuesday to the EVM godown on the ...

The Maharashtra State Election Commission told the Bombay High Court Wednesday that the use of VVPAT machines is neither mandatory nor technically feasible for local body elections. The commission ...

Refuting the Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh's allegations on Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) and Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that ...

The Maharashtra State Election Commission on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that the use of VVPAT machines was not mandatory for local body polls, and it was also not technically feasible. The ...

The apex court was hearing a petition filed by leaders of 21 political parties after first taking up on March 15 the plea seeking random verification of at least half the EVMs using VVPAT slips in ...

Without VVPATs, the petition contends, votes recorded on EVMs become unverifiable, leaving no way for voters or authorities to confirm that the recorded vote reflects the voter’s choice. Gudadhe said ...