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Lucknow, May 29: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav today termed as a "dangerous trend for democracy" EVMs developing snags in "areas having SP and RLD influence" and demanded that all future elections be conducted through paper ballots.
"Complaints in large numbers have been received of EVMs and VVPAT developing snags in areas where SP and RLD have good influence during yesterday's polling...it seems as if this has been done as part of a design," the SP chief told newspersons here.
The Samajwadi Party president alleged that people in large numbers could not exercise their franchise yesterday.
"Common people have also lost faith in EVMs...officials did not take the issue seriously...this is a dangerous trend for democracy," he said.
The former chief minister said his party had said it earlier too and wants to make a fresh demand that all future elections be conducted through paper ballots.
"This will strengthen democracy...I will ask other political parties, will also write to them, that all should unitedly put forth their views against EVMs...there are many countries which are ahead of India in many things but have faith in paper ballot rather than EVMs for conducting elections," the SP president said.
To a question as to whether any peoples' movement will be launched on this issue, Yadav said first he will talk to all political parties on this issue.
"Earlier when a meeting was convened on the matter, the Congress had not participated in it but they are also in favour of this now...my effort will be to first talk to all and then take decision," he stressed.
To a question, he termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's road show on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on May 27 near Kairana as an attempt to influence the by-election.
"The prime minister participated in a roadshow and in his speech also talked about quota within quota...we say that if you really want to give quota to backwards and most backwards then you first need to have their numbers counted and only then give them their right and honour as per their population. But, since you only wanted to influence the bypoll, you just made a mention of it (in your speech)," Akhilesh said.
To a question, the SP chief said he will contest the next Lok Sabha election but the seat will be decided by the party.
He also paid homage to former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh on his death anniversary today. (PTI)
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Bengaluru, May 16: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged as the single largest party by winning 104 seats in the May 12 election held for 222 seats to the Karnataka Assembly.
While the ruling Congress has to be satisfied with 78 seats, the regional party JD(S) by winning 38 seats as emerged as king maker and has staked claim to form the government as Congress has come forward to extend its unconditional support to prevent BJP from coming to power.
The announcement of result of Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency from where former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar was seeking re-election was delayed yesterday as there was anomaly in the VVPAT and EVM tabulation. However, the issue was resolved and Mr Shettar was declared as elected.
Final Party Position: Party won
BJP 104
Congress 78
JDS 37
BSP 1
Independent: 1
Otheres 1
Total: 222
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In the House of 224 seats, polling to Jayanagar was countermanded following death of BJP candidate and in Rajarajeshwarinagar it was deferred following seizure of large number of
Voter ID cards. The Polling is now scheduled for May 28. UNI
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New Delhi, Mar 27: In a crucial political battle for both the Congress and the BJP, the Election Commission on Tuesday announced that Karnataka assembly election will be held on May 12.
The result of 224-member assembly will be declared on May 15, said Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat. 
The term of the current legislative Assembly ends on May 28.
In a briefing to mediapersons here, Mr Rawat said, all the political parties in Karnataka demanded that polls be held in a single phase. After considering their demands and ground realities, the Commission decided to hold the poll on May 12.
“Keeping in view climate conditions, academic and exams calendars, major festivals, availability of central police forces, the Commission decided to conduct the polls on May 12”, said Mr Rawat.
The notification for poll will be made on April 17 and the last date for filing nomination will be April 24, the Commission said.
Scrutiny of nomination papers will be held on April 25 while and the last day for withdrawing nomination will be April 27. 
Karnataka has 4.96 crore voters and VVPAT will be used in the polls, the Chief Election Commissioner said.
He also said that adequate central armed forces will be deployed in the state to hold a free and fair election.
Karnataka is facing a tough battle with Congress projecting incumbent Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as its chief ministerial face, the BJP is contesting the election under former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. The third force led by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular) in alliance with Mayawati-led BSP.
In 2013, the Congress won 122 seats while the BJP and the JD(S) won 40 seats each. 
A poll ambience is already set in the state with leaders from the Congress and the BJP holding statewide campaigns and addressing rallies.
The latest decision by Karnataka government to give a separate religious status to Lingayat community seems to dominate the political undercurrents in this Southern state. UNI
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Lucknow, Mar 13: All eyes are on tomorrow's counting of votes for the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha bypolls, where polling was held on March 11.
The bypolls were necessitated after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated the Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats respectively, following their election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council in September last year.
The BJP has fielded Kaushalendra Singh Patel from Phulpur and Upendra Dutt Shukla from Gorakhpur against the SP's Pravin Nishad and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel respectively. Sureetha Kareem is the Congress candidate from Gorakhpur. The party has fielded Manish Mishra from Phulpur.
The Election Commission here on Tuesday said all preparations for smooth conduct of the counting have been done in Gorakhpur and Allahabad. The counting will start at 0800 hrs on Wednesday and the results are expected by late afternoon.
In both the by-elections, the EVMs, equipped with VVPAT where the voters can see for whom they have voted, were used while Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System were used to dispatch postal ballots to eligible service voters in the constituencies. 
The elections will be seen as a referendum for Mr Adityanath, as he himself has been a five-time MP from the temple town of Gorakhpur. BJP has a stronghold on the seat from where it has won since 1989. 
On the other hand Phulpur, once the bastion of the Congress and represented by country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, witnessed a saffron surge in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, when Mr Maurya won the seat.
However, a low voter turnout in the by-elections has given headache for political parties.
With Phulpur polling 37.39 per cent and Gorakhpur 47 per cent gives enough prediction that the result could be a tight one and victory margin could be less than a lakh.
In 2014 parliamentary elections, Phulpur polled around 50.16 per cent of the 19 lakh voters and Mr Maurya won by a landslide margin of more than five lakh votes.
Similarly in Gorakhpur, Mr Adityanath won the seat for the fifth time by a margin of over three lakhs in 2014 when there was 54.65 per cent of polling.
The ruling BJP did not only win both the seats in the 2014 general elections but also swept the state Assembly polls last year. However, this time, the party faces a new challenge as the SP contestants have the backing of BSP. UNI
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Shillong, Feb 27: Voting for the 59 Assembly constituencies out of 60 seats in Meghalaya are underway, amid tight security arrangements.
Chief Electoral Officer Frederick Roy Kharkongor said 16 per cent of voters have exercised their franchise till 1000 hours.
Moreover, he said a “large number of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines which were malfunctioned have been replaced”.
Mr. Kharkongor said that there has been no report of any poll violence from any part of the state .
State Cabinet Minister and East Shillong candidate from Congress party, Ampareen Lyngdoh has caste her vote this morning.
The polling which began at 0700 hours in more than 3000 polling stations across the state amid tight security arrangements, will continue till 1600 hours.
To ensure free and fair polls, 106 companies of paramilitary troopers have been deployed across the state.
Altogether, 18,12,440 electorates, would exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 361 candidates in the fray of whom 31 are women and 80 independents.
The number of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines used in all the polling stations are 3025. The election is webcasted in 183 polling stations and 66 polling station will be manned fully by women.
Mawlai assembly constituency in East Khasi Hills district has 42,670 voters, which is the highest, while Dalu assembly constituency in West Garo Hills near the India-Bangladesh 18,640 which is the lowest.
Out of the 361 candidates in the fray, the prominent candidates whose fate would be sealed in the electronic voting machine include Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, Assembly Speaker Abu Taher Mondal, two former Chief Ministers - Salseng C Marak and Donkupar Roy, Home Minister HDR Lyngdoh, former Union Minister Agatha K Sangma.
The Election Commission is yet to fix the date of Williamnagar constituency where a candidate of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Jonathone Sangma was killed in an IED blast.
The results of the polls would be announced on March 3. UNI
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Bhopal, Feb 24: Nearly 20 pc polling was recorded till 1100 hrs for the crucial by-elections to to Shivpuri's Kolaras and Ashnoknagar's Mungaoli assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the principal-opposition Congress are in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, official sources said.
Amid tight security, the polling commenced at 0800 hrs and would close at 1700 hrs at 311 polling centres in Kolaras where a 2,44,456-strong electorate, including 1,13,753 women, are expected to exercise their franchise for sealing the fate of 22 candidates. 
Likewise, polling commenced at 264 polling centres in Mungaoli where a 1,91,009-strong electorate, including 88,933 women, are likely to cast their votes to determine the fortune of 13 candidates. Counting of votes would be taken up on February 28.
More than 20 per cent polling was recorded in Mungaoli in the first three hours whereas the figure was less than 20 per cent in Kolaras. Technical glitches were reported in EVMs (electronic voting machines) at a few polling centres. Faulty EVMs were repaired or replaced with the help of technical experts.
Elaborate arrangements have been made to ensure free and fair polling with VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail) machines being set up along with EVMs. Over 3,000 polling personnel have been assigned duty at all 575 polling centres. Ten companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) have been deployed besides two companies of Special Armed Force (SAF) and local police personnel. 
The principal contest is between Devendra Jain (BJP) and Mahendra Singh Yadav (Congress) in Kolaras. The bypoll became inevitable, following the death of Mr Ram Singh Yadav (Cong). 
Similarly, Baisaab Yadav (BJP) and Brajendra Singh Yadav (Cong) are locked in a direct combat in Mungaoli. The by-election was necessitated following the demise of Mr Mahendra Singh Kalukheda (Cong).
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan assumed the reins of campaigning for the saffron party. From the Congress camp; former Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath, the party's state unit chief Arun Yadav and Leader of the Opposition Ajay Singh were among those on the campaign trail. UNI
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Ambassa, Feb 23: Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) Tripura State Chief Biplab Deb said his party will gain landslide victory over the left in the recently concluded assembly election.
While interacting with media persons in the Northern District of Dhalai, Deb said BJP would sweep across all the six constituencies.
The BJP leader arrived here on Thursday to hold post-election meeting with the six BJP candidates from six constituencies in the district. 
He further added that CPI-M was demanding scrutiny of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail(VVPAT) slips as it was sure of its impending defeat. 
He claimed confidently that the district was all set for a new beginning. 
The results of Assembly elections are scheduled to be declared on March 3 next. UNI
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Agartala, Feb 21: The CPI-M has asked election commission of India to match the VVPAT slips with the vote counts on EVMs in the13 constituencies where voting process was delayed due to repeated sangs in the machines on February 18 assembly polls.
Veteran CPI (M) leader and member of the Central Secretariat of CPI (M) Nilotpal Basu met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Om Prakash Rawat on Tuesday in New Delhi and said that the malfunctioning of EVM and VVPAT was considerably high in Chief Minister’s constituency Dhanpur and in the most prestigious Banamalipur where BJP president Biplab Kumar Deb contested the elections.
Apart from that, similar problems were reported from Simna, Panisagar, Dharmanagar, Takarjala, Radhakishorpur, Matabari, Bagma, Asharambari, Mohonpur, Mandaibazar and Suryamaninagar constituencies, which left the voters wondering how the machines malfunctioned despite ECI'S claims of serious precautions.
The memorandum indicated the attempts of manipulation of election and alleged that there were failure of the entire apparatus of control unit, ballot unit and VVPAT in large number of booths. Out of 3174 polling booths of 59 constituencies, EVMs had developed technical snags in 519 booths which was really unusual.
The memorandum also alleged that some ECL engineers opened all the ballot units of Panisagar assembly constituency, 12 units of Dharmanagar and 3 units of Jubrajnagar constituencies in absence of any political party representatives on the previous night of election.
“This has created mystery because, after setting of candidates in the ballot unit in Returning officer’s office, no one has the authority to open the machines. It is still mystery what did the engineers do to the machines,” it mentioned adding that in spite of the direction of election commission, the outsiders mostly from Assam, West Bengal and from some Hindi-speaking states had remained in Tripura on the poll day.
Initially, CPI-M polling agents were prevented from entering booths, and afterwards, a good number of voters were prevented from going to cast their vote. The party symbol of CPi-M in EVM was kept covered in some booths for a considerable time and polling agents were forcibly driven out of the booths, the memorandum alleged seeking action from ECI. UNI
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Agartala, Feb 17: Police arrested at least 5 CPI-M activists in Khowai last night for fomenting trouble before assembly election tomorrow. 
Based on the complaints of attacking BJP supporters, police detained them.
The accused persons allegedly assaulted five villagers who recently shifted to BJP from CPI-M in Gournagar area of Khowai town after attending the Prime Minister’s rally on February 15 last. The villagers complained that the cadres had earlier warned them not to join BJP. 
One of the victims Subodh Das alleged that CPI-M cadres had attacked them on the road and later attacked their houses in the village but when their fellow supporters counter-attacked, they left the place but they were all identified.
However, police said all the accused were arrested. The CPI-M alleged that 
BJP workers were stopped in the village when they entered a locality to gratify the voters illegally. They alleged that the police did not respond to their call and rather favoured the BJP.
On the other, CPI(M) state secretary Bijan Dhar last night lodged a fresh complaint to the Election Commission on ‘suspicious’ movement of Assam Minister Pallav Lochan Das along with a BJP leader at Gandacherra under 44-Raima Valley (ST) assembly constituency in Dhalai district even after end of campaign.
He alleged that the minister was detained by the villagers in a vehicle, which had a fake government sticker of Superintendent of police of Unokoti district. He stated that some heavy suitcases were also found in the possession of the minister. SP (Dhalai) S R Das said the minister was found in Gandacherra and was escorted to Agartala. They had requested him to go back to his state complying with the ECI's direction.
The BJP state in-charge Sunil Deodhar said BJP candidates and workers were attacked in several places of West Tripura and Khowai districts last night. He alleged that the convoy of BJP candidate of Gholaghati (ST) assembly constituency had been attacked and his vehicle damaged.
Similarly, the CPI-M cadres hurled bomb at BJP vice-president and Sonamura contestant Subal Bhowmik yesterday night. The candidates of Khowai, Teliamura, Majlishpur and Mandai were attacked by the CPI-M miscreants last night and altogether 12 of their workers were injured.
However, IGP (Law and order) K V Sreejesh told media that besides state police and Tripura State Rifle jawans, adequate number of central paramilitary force (CPF) personnel have been deployed across the constituencies. The jawans were patrolling the localities and had undertaken several confidence building measures. In most of the areas 144 CrPC has been promulgated to ensure peaceful polling.
“Exhaustive measures have been taken to ensure free and fair polling. There is no chance of any kind of attempt to crate tension and voters are free to go for exercise their franchise without any fear,” Mr Sreejesh said. 
To ensure free and fair elections, the EC has appointed a special observer R K Panchananda, DG of ITBP to oversee the overall security arrangement during election, who arrived last night and reviewed the security deployment issues, he said adding that two choppers were kept ready to meet any eventuality while an air ambulance will also be ready for emergency purpose.
The IGP said some companies of additional CPF will stay back in the state even after completion of polling to ensure peace and added, “No trouble monger will be allowed to intimidate or threat the electorate. Even if it is reported, the police will take stringent measures.”
According to CEO Sriram Taranikanta around one third of the total 3174 polling booths have been identified as vulnerable where foolproof security will be made available while about 200 localities were categorized as critical.
The CEO also dispelled all doubts over EVMs and VVPATs saying these are safest in the country and adequate measures have been taken to maintain total secrecy of polling process. He assured that webcasting of almost all polling booths will be done by which even EC official could monitor the polling process at any particular time. UNI
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Shillong, Feb 16: The Election Commission (EC) today said the matter of Meghalaya Director General of Police SB Singh allegedly campaigning for Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, filed by BJP is being looked into and necessary action will be taken if found guilty.
“BJP has given a complaint and we are gathering the facts. Whatever, fact that has been gathered till now NPP has withdrawn its complaint and BJP’s complaint that INC is using officials, so far we have not received anything on this issue but the process is on. Whatever emerges, the Commission will take necessary action,” CEC OP Rawat told reporters here.
On being asked about poll-prepardness in all the three states – Tripura , Meghalaya and Nagaland, Mr Rawat said all the three states have their own peculiarities. The EC has taken adequate measure to ensure free and fair election. 
To stop using hate speech during polls, the CEC said, “We have been getting feedback from the political parties and this issue will be look into. We must ensure this thing should not go on and vitiate this election.”
On militancy in Garo hills, he said, ' the issue has been raised by some parties and close monitoring has been initiated by the force. It is not that serious. Even the slightest aberration will be nipped in the area.”
To stop use of cash and other illegal activities to voters, Mr Rawat said GPS has been brought for swift action so that flying squad can move in the direction from where the complaint has been received.
Questioning on use of muscle power, he said, the commission was aware of the village council and it would urge them not to involve in any unlawful activities.
According to Mr Rawat, “there are a total of 3083 polling stations (3082 main and one auxiliary) at 2531 polling stations. Voters assistance booth will be set up at all polling stations. The total electorate is 18,44,785. Out of which 18,42,163 are general and 2621 service electors. In general electors, 9,12,849 are male while 9,29,314 are female. The number of first time voters are 89,045.”
He said that VVPATs will be used in all the 3083 polling station and the Commission has directed that one polling station of each constituency shall be randomly selected and VVPAT slips of this polling station shall be counted and matched with EVM results.
The CEC said that till February 13, cash, liquor, narcotics seized by the authorities were—cash Rs 17,25,000 and liquor 20,934.66 litres.
“ I am happy to inform you that one all women managed polling station in the 60-assembly constituencies will be set up. All such polling stations will be given a unique identity with a maroon coloured sign board / banner.Sixty seven all women managed polling stations will be there," he said.
For person with disabilities, Mr Rawat said, “ comprehensive and consolidated guidelines will be issued for making special arrangements like all premises will be provided with sturdy ramps (temporary or permanent) for barrier free access and proper link roads to polling stations. A total of 4096 person with disabalities have been mapped to 1404 polling station in the state. Social welfare department will also be engaged.”
The Election Commission has also made arrangements for solar lanterns and emergency where electricity is not accessible. 
Polling for the coming election is scheduled on February 27 and the results will be announced on March 3. UNI
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New Delhi, Jan 18: Election Commission today announced a two rounds polls schedule for assembly elections for Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland with election in Tripura scheduled on February 18 and that for Nagaland and Meghalaya on February 27.
The counting of votes for all the three states would be held on March 3.
Addressing a news conference here, Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti said there will be two rounds of polling in these states. He said polling in Tripura will be held on Feb 18 while in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the polling will be held on Feb 27 adding that EVM and VVPAT will be used in all the three states.
'Counting of votes for all the three States will be on March 3,' Mr Joti said.
Mr Joti said notification for Tripura Assembly polls will be issued on January 24. The last date of filing of nominations will be on January 31, scrutiny of nominations will be on February 1 and last date of withdrawal of candidatures will be on February 3.
He said election in all the three states have to be completed before March 5. 
Announcing the poll schedule for Meghalaya and Nagaland, he said notification for polls in the two states will be issued on January 31. The last date of filing of nominations for the two states will be on February 7, scrutiny of nominations will be on February 8 and last date of withdrawal of candidatures will be on February 12.
The Chief Election Commissioner said all critical events will be videographed.
The Chief Election Commissioner said Model code of conduct comes into force with immediate effect in all the three sates and it will be applicable to all the State governments and it will be applicable to the Union Government for policy related issues in these states.
He said final publication of electoral rolls in respect of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland has been done.
Mr Joti said total number of electors as per final rolls for Meghalaya is 18, 30, 104, for Nagaland it is 11, 89, 264 and for Tripura it is 25,69, 216. UNI
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New Delhi, Dec 15: The war of words on the role of Election Commission and Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) seemed to have only intensified with several leaders including Union Ministers taking to the Twitter on the same.
"Congress criticising Election Commission? In 2009 I was defeated by 1,314 votes with 104 per cent voting but Congress didn't allow EC to repoll! BJP never interferes with Constitutional bodies," Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju tweeted.
In 2009 Lok Sabha polls, Mr Rijiju had lost the Arunachal West parliamentary seat to Takam Sanjoy of Congress.
While the Congress nominee had polled 140443 votes, Kiren Rijiju as BJP candidate had managed 139129 votes.
Mr Rijiju had won the seat in 2004 by humbling Kamen Ringu of the Congress party.
In his missive micro blogging site, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy wrote: "Congress hope is on VVPT counting. When I argued for it in Supreme Court, Cong opposed".
Congress leaders and party workers including party MPs on Thursday held a dharna in front of the Election Commission alleging that the poll panel has turned a blind eye to the violation of the model code of conduct by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala has gone to the extent of stating that "Election Commission has become a captive puppet of Prime Minister" and that the election body has been "prostrating" before Mr Modi. UNI
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New Delhi, Dec 12: With the second phase of Gujarat Assembly polls less than 48 hours away, the Election Commission said it had put in place an elaborate system to prevent any possible misuse of EVMs/VVPATs or procedural lapses in the use of EVMs . 
These safeguards are being implemented by ECI, in total transparency, with the active and documented involvement of political parties, candidates and their representatives at every stage, so as to build their confidence on efficacy and reliability of EVMs and VVPATs. 
Due to strict adherence to ECI’s robust security and administrative protocols by Election machinery, there was no room for any possibility of electoral malpractices during the Ist phase of polling held on December 9, the EC said.
A miniscule percentage of technical glitches (broken/stuck buttons, no display etc) in the EVMs & VVPATs were reported, which were immediately addressed by replacing the machines for smooth conduct of polls. 
During Ist phase of polling, only 0.75 % of Ballot Units (BUs), 0.75% of Control Units (CUs) and 2.8% of VVPATs developed technical glitches (broken/stuck buttons, no display etc). 
The comprehensive framework of administrative protocols and procedural safeguards comprise of the First Level Checking(FLC) of all EVMs and VVPATs, strict regime of mock polls conducted on each and every EVM and VVPAT during the FLC, candidate setting and poll day (before the beginning of actual polls), 2-stage randomization of EVMs and VVPATs, stringent security protocols for storage of EVMs and VVPATs before, during and after the polls, and comprehensive videography and CCTV coverage of all EVM & VVPAT related activities and storage in strong-rooms.
All the above election-related activities are carried out in the presence of the representatives of political parties and candidates/election agents.
Mock poll with a few votes is conducted on every functioning EVM at the time of FLC. 
Additionally, at the time of FLC, 1200 votes were cast in 1% of EVMs, 1000 votes in 2% and 500 votes in another 2% of EVMs in the presence of the representatives of political parties. 
A printout of the results of this mock poll as well as a sequential print out of every vote polled during the mock poll were shown to the representatives of political parties. 
Representatives of political parties were allowed to pick machines randomly for this purpose. In rest of the machines, numbers of votes polled during the mock poll were to their satisfaction .
They were allowed to do mock poll themselves. In VVPATs, mock-poll with 6 votes against each of the 16 candidate buttons was done for each VVPATs. UNI
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Ahmedabad, Dec 9: An estimated 45 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the first six hours on Saturday in the first phase of polling to 89 seats in Gujarat Assembly elections.
As the day progressed, the pace of voting picked up even as in number of pockets Opposition Congress leaders and others protested snags in EVM machines.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani also exercised his franchise and tweeted, "I have exercised my right to vote. Have you? Don’t miss it," he said, urging citizens to exercise their democratic right. 
The voting is being held in 19 districts spread across 89 Assembly seats in Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat.
The polling began at 0800 hrs and in the first two hours, voter turnout was over 13.3 per cent.
A total of 977 candidates are in fray in the first phase. Prominent candidates include the Chief Minister, who is contesting from Rajkot (West), and Congress' Shaktisinh Gohil (Mandvi) and Paresh Dhanani (Amreli).
BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the turnout is good but due to the use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in many booths voting is taking place slowly.
Mr Jaitey also said, "Voting trends look fine. We will win by a landslide margin. EVM related issues are questioned in every election. The Election Commission will look into it".
In many polling booths, elderly citizens turned up on wheel-chairs to exercise their democratic rights.
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel also casts his vote.
"I have cast my vote today. I have voted for change. Urge all fellow Gujaratis to turn out in large numbers & bring around the change that the entire nation is waiting for," Mr Patel tweeted. 
Reports said a bridegroom in Sagrampura, an old colony of Sindhi Muslims in Surat, said he will vote before attending his wedding ceremony.
A total of 977 candidates are in the fray and elections are being held in districts Kutch, Morbi, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Rajkot, Botad, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Gir Somnath, Bhavnagar, Bharuch, Narmada, Surat, Tapi, Navsari, Dang and Valsad. UNI
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Rajkot/Ahmedabad, Dec 9: An estimated 23 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 1200 hrs on Saturday in first phase of polling to 89 seats in Gujarat Assembly elections.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani also exercised his franchise and tweeted, "I have exercised my right to vote. Have you? Don’t miss it," he said urging citizens to exercise their democratic right. 
The voting is being held in 19 districts spread across 89 Assembly seats in Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat.
The polling began at 0800 hrs and in the first two hours, voter turnout was over 13.3 per cent.
A total of 977 candidates are in fray in the first phase. Prominent candidates include Chief Minister, who is contesting from Rajkot (West), and Congress' Shaktisinh Gohil (Mandvi) and Paresh Dhanani (Amreli).
BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the turnout is good but due to the use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in many booths voting is taking place slowly.
In a tweet in the morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged voters to turn out in record numbers and vote.
"Phase 1 of Gujarat polls begin. Urging all those voting today to turn out in record numbers and vote. I particularly call upon youngsters to exercise their franchise," Mr Modi tweeted. UNI
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Lucknow, Nov 24: Bypolls to Sikandara Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh would be held on December 21, the Election Commission announced on Friday morning.
The Assembly seat fell vacant, following the death of sitting BJP member Mathura Prasad Pal, who died on July 22 after a prolonged illness. According to the EC statement, the nominations for the Sikandara Assembly by-elections in Kanpur Dehat district would start on November 26 and the last date for filing of the nominations is December 4. Scrutiny of the papers would be done on December 5 and last date for withdrawals of papers is December 7. The polling for the bypolls would be held on December 21 and counting of votes on December 24. The EC said that the voting would be done through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the bypolls along with the facility of VVPAT. The Model Code of Conduct for the bypolls was enforced with immediate effect, the statement said. UNI
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Shimla, Nov 9: Six-time Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, who is about 84 years old, once again hoped that he would be voted to power for the seventh term, predicting the full majority to his incumbent Congress government.
Mr Singh along with his son Vikramaditya and wife Pratitbha Singh cast his vote at Rampur Bushair and said that he is certain of the party winning with full majority in the ongoing Assembly elections.The longest serving Chief Minister of the state, Mr Singh told mediapersons that he hoped that the party would achieve full majority votes in the elections. The next government too would be of the Congress. Showing his discontentment with the election trail of BJP and derogatory remarks made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the octogenarian Chief Minister said he had seen all Prime Ministers and heard their speech however Mr Modi speeches during the campaigning trial did not suit him and his high dignity. Mr Singh was in fray from Arki assembly segment of Solan district, his son Vikarmaditya who was fighting his first elections is in fray from Shimla Rural, BJP's CM face Prem Kumar Dhumal was in fray from Sujanpur, former Congress Minister Sukh Ram's son Anil Sharma is fighting on BJP ticket from Mandi. All the Congress Ministers are in fray. Congress and BJP was fighting election in all 68 seats. Bahujan Samaj Party is contesting 42 seats, followed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) which is contesting 14, Swabhiman Party and Lok Gathbandhan Party six each, and the CPI contesting three seats. The main focus of the BJP's campaign was corruption while the Congress hit out at the Opposition regarding the issues of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation. A total of 50,25,941 voters are eligible to cast their votes and the polling will take place at 7,525 booths with EVMs and VVPAT. The counting would be done on December 18. UNI
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