Malfunctioning of EVMs
The Election Commission has intimated that some Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were reported defective on poll day during the recently held elections for Legislative Assemblies of five States. Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha recently, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Law & Justice, said that the details of number of cases where malfunctioning EVMs were replaced with reserved EVMs, within a short time on poll day is as under:
|
S.No. |
Name of the State |
Total Polling Stations |
Total Cases of Malfunctioning EVMs |
Percentage of Malfunctioning EVMs |
|
1. |
Goa |
1,614 |
21 |
1.3 |
|
2. |
Punjab |
19,841 |
49 |
0.25 |
|
3. |
Manipur |
2,665 |
60 |
2.25 |
|
4. |
Uttarakhand |
9,805 |
120 |
1.22 |
|
5. |
Uttar Pradesh |
1,36,761 |
1,127 |
0.82 |
|
|
TOTAL |
1,70,686 |
1,377 |
0.81 |
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