- By Shivam Shandilya
- Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:29 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The Election Commission has rejected the allegations by the opposition about vote mismatch in the just-concluded Maharashtra state polls. It said that there is no mismatch between VVPAT slips (voter verifiable paper audit trail) and voting machine (EVM) numbers. According to the Supreme Court rules and the Election Commission, it is mandatory to count the VVPAT slips of five randomly selected polling stations per assembly constituency and to match them against the numbers in EVMs.
According to the Chief Election Officer of Maharashtra, all five VVPAT slips at each assembly segment were to be counted to match them with the numbers in the EVM. In all the 288 assembly segments, a total number of 1445 VVPAT slips were counted on the same day of counting, which was 23rd November, the Chief Election Officer of Maharashtra added.
"As per that, slip count of 1440 VVPAT units from 288 Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra state has been tallied with respective Control Unit Data. There is no discrepancy found between VVPAT slip count and EVM Control unit count as per the reports received from the concerned District Election Officials (DEO). Due procedure laid by ECI has been followed," said the officer.
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The Election Commission has rejected the allegations by the opposition about vote mismatch in the just-concluded Maharashtra state polls. It said that there is no mismatch between VVPAT slips (voter verifiable paper audit trail) and voting machine (EVM) numbers. According to the Supreme Court rules and the Election Commission, it is mandatory to count the VVPAT slips of five randomly selected polling stations per assembly constituency and to match them against the numbers in EVMs.
According to the Chief Election Officer of Maharashtra, all five VVPAT slips at each assembly segment were to be counted to match them with the numbers in the EVM. In all the 288 assembly segments, a total number of 1445 VVPAT slips were counted on the same day of counting, which was 23rd November, the Chief Election Officer of Maharashtra added.