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Electronic Voting Machine: Here's all you wanted to know about India's EVMs

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Electronic Voting Machine: Here's all you wanted to know about India's EVMs In the wake of several political parties questioning whether electronic voting machines are tamper-proof, the Election Commission now plans to introduce an advanced version of EVM ahead of the 2019 General Elections. The controversy surrounding the electronic voting machine (EVM) tampering was reignited after the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party raised the issue with the Election Commission recently. Ahead of the crucial MCD election in the Capital, both the parties sought scrapping of the EVMs after a video showed that the  (VVPAT) machine used during a trial in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh, dispensed slips with the BJP's poll symbol. Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Saleena Singh, however, denied the reports on Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine dispensing BJP slips. The Election Commission has now  sought a detailed report  from the poll authorities in Bhind. Bes
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AIADMK symbol row: EC decision could hand advantage to Panneerselvam over Sasikala

The two leaves have withered in the summer of 2017, thanks to the heat generated by the two rival camps of the AIADMK. In technical parlance, they have been frozen, which means the RK Nagar by-election on 12 April will not see either the two leaves symbol or the AIADMK name in its present form being used by any candidate. What the two candidates - TTV Dinakaran belonging to the VK Sasikala camp and E Madhusudhanan from the O Panneerselvam camp - have done is to choose a party name that shows their linkage to the AIADMK. So RK Nagar will see a contest between AIADMK Amma (Sasikala camp) and AIADMK Puratchi Thalaivi Amma (OPS camp). Throw MGR Amma Deepa Peravai - the outfit started by Jayalalithaa's niece, Deepa - into the mix and you realise Amma's stamp is all over this alphabet soup battle for her constituency. The two factions of the AIADMK have also chosen two symbols. While OPS has gone with an electric pole with its close resemblance to two leaves, Sasikala went for
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