No mismatch found in VVPAT slips and votes polled in Maharashtra polls: EC | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday claimed that, in a mandatory count, there was no mismatch found in the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) slips and the votes polled in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections.The commission said as per the guidelines it is required to count VVPAT slips of randomly selected five polling stations across each assembly segment of a state. The poll body, accordingly, counted the slips on November 23 (during the result day) in the presence of the counting observer and representatives of candidates."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 f...