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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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Topic: EVM

Polling booths in Andhra report EVM glitches as first phase of Lok Sabha elections begin

PTI -
Andhra's chief electoral officer said 50 places reported EVM glitches. Technical teams are on standby to deal with such instances.

EC’s stubborn stand on VVPAT audit of just one booth per constituency must change

Yogendra Yadav -
VVPAT slips should be matched with the EVM count in 14 booths per assembly constituency.

Over 20 opposition parties move SC seeking vote verification for Lok Sabha polls

Ritika Jain -
The matter has been listed for Friday before a CJI Ranjan Gogoi-led bench. In its plea, opposition raises same issues it listed before EC in February.

Pulwama changed election game for Modi so much it needn’t worry about EVM tampering charges

Yogendra Yadav -
Post-Pulwama, the BJP has managed to push battlefield ethics on to the electoral field, except that the special restraint applies only to the opposition.

73 former IAS, IPS & IFS officers give EC a solution to EVM row, and it’s not paper ballot

Nandita Singh -
The letter, which comes months before the Lok Sabha elections, includes as signatories former NSA Shivshankar Menon & former foreign secretary Nirupama Menon Rao.

He targeted Congress over corruption, but now Prashant Bhushan has turned its poll advisor

Neelam Pandey -
SC lawyer Prashant Bhushan, of late, has been meeting Congress leaders to share his inputs on the party's 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto.

EC unlikely to yield to opposition demand to verify 50% of EVM results with paper trails

Sanya Dhingra -
EC official calls the opposition's demand arbitrary, says the commission will come up with a solution based on some logical rationale.

India should put the EVM hacking debate to rest and here’s how

Yogendra Yadav -
Instead of hackathons, the Election Commission can look at these five ways to solve the EVM problem.

20 opposition parties to meet EC next week to flag EVMs, says Rahul Gandhi

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Congress president Rahul Gandhi made the announcement after a meeting of opposition parties, and said they had a distinct proposal for the EC.

What Election Commission can do to dispel the misconception about EVMs

Maneesh Chhibber -
Consistent tallying alone would go a long way in putting to rest the oft-repeated allegation against EVMs.
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