There’s is not any mismatch between VVPAT slips (Voter verifiable paper audit path) and voting machine (EVM) numbers, stated Chief Election Officer Maharashtra, rejecting the Opposition allegations a couple of vote mismatch within the simply concluded Maharashtra state polls.
According to guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court and the Election Commission, it’s necessary to depend VVPAT slips of randomly chosen 5 polling stations per Assembly constituencies and to match it in opposition to the numbers in EVMs.
A VVPAT slip depend of randomly chosen 5 polling stations per meeting constituency was carried out on November 23, the vote counting day in Maharashtra, in entrance of the Counting Observer and representatives of candidates, stated the Chief Election Officer Maharashtra.
“As per that, slip depend of 1440 VVPAT models from 288 Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra state has been tallied with respective Control Unit Data. There is not any discrepancy discovered between VVPAT slip depend and EVM Control unit depend as per the studies acquired from the involved District Election Officials (DEO). Due process laid by ECI has been adopted,” stated the officer.
Over the weekend, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, at an NDTV occasion, famous that the “ninda ras” or the development of criticism is on the rise and the the flexibility to reward or see the positives is on a decline. The feedback had been within the backdrop of the Opposition’s questions over the voting machines.
“What surprises me, positively, is the resilience of the Indian voter… this nation can resolve all its points peacefully via the poll, not the bullet… This is the largest satisfaction,” Mr Kumar stated at NDTV’s Indian Of The Year Award occasion.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi – fronted by the Congress and the Shiv Sena and NCP factions – having misplaced poorly within the Maharashtra election is planning a nationwide protest in opposition to the credibility of EVMs, which it blames for its dismal present.
Earlier, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge protested in opposition to using voting machines and instructed a return to poll paper.
“We ought to all unite and transfer ahead collectively and push them apart. I don’t want to talk about elections, however I might certainly say the votes of all of the poor and oppressed communities are going to waste. They ought to all demand voting by poll paper,” the 82-year-old Congress chief stated talking on the ‘Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan’ perform at Talkatora stadium in Delhi On November 26.
“Let them hold EVMs with them. We don’t desire EVMs, we wish voting on poll paper. Then they are going to know what their place is and the place they stand,” he stated referring to the BJP.
Taking a swipe on the leaders of the Opposition alliance over their allegation surrounding EVMs, Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday stated let MLAs resign and let re-election happen.
“No one takes them (MVA) significantly…If they do not have belief in EVMs the MPs and MLAs of Congress, NCP-SCP and Shiv Sena (UBT) ought to resign in protest of EVMs and let re-election happen,” stated Mr Goyal.