EVMs to be used for General Elections in all constituencies

The Election Commission has decided to use Electronic Voting Machines in all the polling stations of the country as was done during the last Lok Sabha Election in 2004. There are 13, 68,430 EVMs available in the country.

The First Level Checking of these EVMs has already been taken up in all the states/UTs and has been completed in many places.

As a measure to enhance transparency in allotment of EVMs to different constituencies and polling stations, the Commission has introduced a two stage randomization procedure– one by the District Election Officer involving representatives of the recognized political parties, immediately after the first level checking is over, for allotment of EVMs to different constituencies in the district, and then again at the level of Returning Officer involving the candidates or their election agents to randomly decide the specific polling stations in which each of the EVM bearing unique identification number will be used.

Source : Equity Bulls

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