Gujrat manufactured EVM’s provided to J&K Kamal casts doubt Srinagar, Aug 20:The State Administration has procured at least 15,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Officials told CNS that all these machines have come from Gujrat and these were procured only after Election Commission of India approved them to cover all 10015 polling stations. . A top district administration official told CNS that for the first time all the EVM’s have come from Gujrat. “All these ENM’s have been manufactured in Gujrat while Election Commission of India after verifying and inspecting them has come to believe through these machines any kind of rigging or bogus voting could be easily checked,” he said. . The officials said that these new EVM’s are equipped with several such features that were capable of detecting the rigging and bogus voting. The Election Commission office in Jammu and Kashmir would soon be conducting first trial of the EVMs. “These EVMs apart from being completely temper proof have a unique feature of displaying date and timing of start and closure of voting. This new feature of the EVMs would nullify any attempt by anyone to temper with the EVMs or indulge in bogus voting,” officials said. . Meanwhile, criticizing Election Commission of India’s decision to provide Gujrat manufactured EVM’s, National Conference Additional General Secretary, Dr Shiekh Mustafa Kamal told CNS that this will create doubts in the minds of people of Kashmir and will certainly scare the electorates. . “It is surprising and a million dollar question why among the 28 states only EVM’s from Gujrat were selected and dispatched to Jammu and Kashmir,” Kamal said adding that elections in Jammu and Kashmir are mostly rigged. . He said that it is a serious issue as nobody can deny this fact that ECI is known for adopting double standards. (CNS)
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:19:00 +0000
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