BJP slams Opposition for doubting EVMs, asks it to accept defeat with grace

A Commission official said the dissent notes and minority views would remain part of records of the poll panel

LokSabha Elections 2019:The BJP Tuesday censured resistance groups for scrutinizing the believability of Electronic Voting Machines and requested that they acknowledge their thrashing with elegance if the general population vote Prime Minister Narendra Modi to control once more.

Gathering pioneer and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad ripped into the restriction, saying EVMs were fine when its pioneers like Mamata Banerjee, N Chandrababu Naidu and Amarinder Singh win decisions and come to control, yet the machines turn questionable when it shows up Modi will return to control.

“EVM is great when Mamata Banerjee turned out to be West Bengal boss pastor twice and Amarinder Singh moved toward becoming Punjab boss priest. In the event that they win, EVM is great. In any case, when there is desire that we will win since individuals of this nation need Narendra Modi to be executive once more, at that point EVM is temperamental,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said

“The BJP denounces their (resistance) lead and will advise submissively to acknowledge their annihilation with effortlessness,” he said.

BJP representative G V L Narasimha Rao said resistance groups are urgently looking for a justification for their looming monstrous annihilation and their abrupt question is “obvious and unimaginary”.

“When they win, as they did in state surveys as of late, EVMs are reliable. Be that as it may, when they lose, they become flawed. Their specific trust in the EVMs is dishonest and naughty.

“Their obtrusive exertion at rubbishing the anticipated star BJP command is an affront to the Indian vote based system. The Opposition parties look extremely little not in their thrashing, yet in their condemnable direct,” he said.

Pioneers of upwards of 22 resistance groups met the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday and requested check of VVPAT slips of arbitrarily chose surveying stations before the including of the votes surveyed in the simply finished up Lok Sabha race starts on May 23.

They likewise requested that if any disparity is found amid VVPAT check, 100 percent tallying of the paper slips of VVPATs of all surveying stations in a specific Assembly portion ought to be done and contrasted and the electronic casting a ballot machine (EVM) results.

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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

LokSabha Elections 2019: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.

An excursion seat headed by Justice Arun Mishra would not engage the supplication recorded 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 watchful eye of a two-judge get-away seat,” the pinnacle court inquired.

“We can’t abrogate the CJI’s organization… This is jabber. The appeal is accepted. Expelled,” Justice Mishra said.

The peak court had on May 7 rejected a survey supplication recorded by 21 Opposition pioneers driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu looking for that irregular 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 corners for each gathering fragment in Lok Sabha surveys, saying it would give more noteworthy fulfillment to ideological groups as well as to the whole electorate.

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Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections

The plea said that as alleged it was possible to tamper with the EVMs in broad daylight during post poll situations

Elections:A request in the Supreme Court on Tuesday looked for bearing to the Election Commission to guarantee wellbeing and security of electronic casting a ballot machines (EVMs) after Lok Sabha surveys.

The request, documented by M Srinivasan, President of Tamil Nadu Annal Ambedkar Law Association, has alluded to news gives an account of anxieties of some resistance groups that EVMs might be altered even after the surveys.

The request, which may come in the mood for hearing one week from now, said that the Chief Election Commissioner be coordinated to guarantee that EVMs are not messed with amid the post surveys period.

“The main statutory and authoritative check accessible to ensure and save the trust in the EVMs was in the hands of Election Commission of India yet what is the ground the truth is the exceptionally unbiased working of Election Commission of India is in question,” it said.

The request said that as supposed it was conceivable to mess with the EVMs without trying to hide amid post survey circumstances since it was a dull period in which the machines have next to no entrance to external world but to a constrained managerial functionaries.

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Lok Sabha elections: 21 Opposition parties move SC against EVM machines

The parties have also sought that at least 50% of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machines be tallied with the voting machines to avoid any discrepancy

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Somewhere around 21 restriction gatherings, including Indian National Congress and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu have moved the best court looking for better security standards to keep the altering of electronic casting a ballot machines.

The gatherings have additionally looked for that something like 50 percent of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machines be counted with the casting a ballot machines to dodge any error. The gatherings have approached the best court following a gathering of 15 non-BJP parties held at Sharad Pawar’s living arrangement in New Delhi in February.

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