The teams will start two days ahead of polling day, trudge through snow and battle icy winds to help 35 voters in the remotest polling station of Arunachal Pradesh cast their valuable votes.It is inde...

The Supreme Court Monday asked 21 opposition leaders to file within a week their reply on the Election Commission's affidavit on their plea regarding Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips i...

The 17th Lok Sabha elections will be the first where every electronic voting machine will be backed by a voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) device but there was no certainty what percentage of...

The heatwave in south Bengal has hit voters and poll staff. Now, even voting machines are vulnerable.In addition to protecting voters and poll officials from the scorcher, the Election Commission is h...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear next week a review plea filed by 21 Opposition leaders seeking a further increase in the random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs in the ongoing general elec...

A vicious campaign that saw BJP leaders hauled up for repeated hate speeches and communal remarks ended in an anticlimax on Saturday, with just about three out of every five voters in the capital cast...

The latest M3 version of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) will be fully used for the first time in Assam in the parliamentary elections, along with other innovations like ballot paper in Bra...

YESDifficult to tamperThere are strict regulations regarding EVM storage. It would be difficult to tamper with EVMs on a mass basis without being observed. The addition of the VVPAT adds another check...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking 100 per cent verification of voter verifiable paper audit trail slips with electronic voting machines during counting of votes on May 23 for the Lo...

Very little in the prime minister’s attitude is surprising. When he says that the repeatedly expressed concerns of the Opposition parties regarding the malfunctioning of electronic voting machines a...