Maharashtra polls: No mismatch between votes polled on EVMs and tally of VVPAT slips, says EC
This came amid the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi claiming that there were discrepancies in the polling and counting processes of the Assembly elections.
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The Election Commission on Monday said that no mismatch was found between the votes polled on the Electronic Voting Machines and the corresponding tally of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail slips in random counting in the recent Assembly elections in Maharashtra.
This came amid the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi – comprising the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Sharad Pawar and the Congress – claiming that there were discrepancies in the polling and counting processes of the elections in the state.
A Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail, or VVPAT, is a machine that prints a paper slip of the candidate’s name, serial number and the party’s symbol after people have cast their vote. To avoid election fraud, it displays the paper slip for seven seconds for people to check if their vote has been cast correctly.
On Monday, the chief electoral office in Maharashtra said that it was mandatory to count the VVPAT slips in five randomly selected polling stations in each Assembly constituency or segment as per the guidelines issued by the Election Commission. This exercise was conducted on November 23, it added.
“As per that, slip count of 1440 VVPAT units from 288 Assembly Constituencies of Maharashtra State has been tallied with respective Control...
