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UP`s uphill task- install error-free EVMs for LS polls
Lucknow, Mar 02: It would be an uphill task for Uttar Pradesh to install over one lakh error-free electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the state during the April-May Lok Sabha polls.
Lucknow, Mar 02: It would be an uphill task for Uttar Pradesh to install over one lakh error-free electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the state during the April-May Lok Sabha polls.
Against the requisition of 1.02 lakh EVMs to be installed in the
same numbers of polling booths in the 80 LS constituencies in the
state, the state election office here is procuring 1.35 lakh EVMs
to meet any eventuality.
State chief electoral officer (CEO) Vijay Sharma told that there would be about 13,000 EVMs in reserve in the state excluding the 12 per cent additional machines against the total number of polling booths.
He said the state already had 96,936 Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) EVMs, while 18,732 would be procured from other states and 12,500 new BEL machines would be delivered before the polls.
Mr Sharma claimed BEL engineers and technicians had already arrived in different parts of the state to check the EVMs and to equip the machines with new batteries and other necessary gadgets, a fortnight before the polls.
The state will go to LS polls in three-phases starting April 26.
In the 1999 general elections altogether 232 EVMs were detected faulty during the polling in which error were found in 148 balloting units while 84 control units did not function.
Every EVM has two units, the balloting unit by which the voters cast their franchise, while the second is the control unit through which the polling booth officer allows the electorate to press the button.
State chief electoral officer (CEO) Vijay Sharma told that there would be about 13,000 EVMs in reserve in the state excluding the 12 per cent additional machines against the total number of polling booths.
He said the state already had 96,936 Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) EVMs, while 18,732 would be procured from other states and 12,500 new BEL machines would be delivered before the polls.
Mr Sharma claimed BEL engineers and technicians had already arrived in different parts of the state to check the EVMs and to equip the machines with new batteries and other necessary gadgets, a fortnight before the polls.
The state will go to LS polls in three-phases starting April 26.
In the 1999 general elections altogether 232 EVMs were detected faulty during the polling in which error were found in 148 balloting units while 84 control units did not function.
Every EVM has two units, the balloting unit by which the voters cast their franchise, while the second is the control unit through which the polling booth officer allows the electorate to press the button.
Bureau Report