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  • Parvathipuram district got EVMs

    Parvathipuram district got EVMs

    Parvathipuram: Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) reached Parvathipuram Manyam District headquarters, newly formed district on Friday night.

    District Administration set up a building at Agricultural Market Yard in Parvathipuram where the EVMs are being stored.

    District collector and District Election Officer Nishant Kumar along with concerned officials inspected the building several times.

    Election Commission allotted 3,170 new BEL M3 EVMs and VVPATS which will be brought to the district this week end.

    The commission also allotted 3,600 Ballot Units (BUs), 1,500 Control Units (CUs) from Visakhapatnam and 1,250 CUs from Kakinada.

    District Administration has informed all the political parties to nominate one person to verify EVMs and to open the godown in their presence. District Collector Nishant Kumar along with Superintendent of Police Vikranth Patil, District Revenue Officer J Venkata Rao monitored the process of receiving EVMs and opening of the godown in the presence of representatives of the parties Parisarla Appa Rao (BJP) and Gottapu Venkata Naidu (TDP) were present.

  • Karnataka Election: 23 villagers arrested for attacking poll-duty vehicle, damaging EVMs in Vijayanagara district

    Karnataka Election: 23 villagers arrested for attacking poll-duty vehicle, damaging EVMs in Vijayanagara district

    Karnataka : 23 individuals were arrested after villagers from Masabinala in Vijayapura district intercepted a poll duty vehicle transporting electronic voting machines (EVMs), physically assaulted an officer, and caused harm to the control and ballot units on Wednesday, the Election Commission said.

    As per the statement by the Election Commission, the villagers halted the transportation of reserved Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for the Assembly elections, which were being carried in a vehicle by a section officer. During this incident, two control and ballot units, as well as three Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs), were reportedly damaged.

    “Sector officer was manhandled. 23 people arrested”, the poll body said, adding that top district officials rushed to the village, which comes under Basavana Bagewadi Assembly segment.

    As per information from the Police, the villagers’ actions were reportedly influenced by rumors that officials were tampering with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs).In a separate incident in the Padmanabhanagar constituency, a group of young individuals armed with sticks allegedly assaulted their political opponents at a polling booth located in Papaiah Garden.