The Hindu: Mumbai: Wednesday, July 26, 2017.
Legislative
Council Chairman Ramraje Nimbalkar on Tuesday directed the government to make a
statement on the alleged malfunctioning EVM in Buldhana district.
Congress MLC
Sanjay Dutt said the complaints of EVM tampering received from across the State
in the local body polls should be probed.
Mr. Dutt
referred to the machine fraud in Buldhana, which was exposed following a reply
under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which said that the vote went to the
lotus symbol, despite pressing another button. “During the zilla parishad polls
held in booth no 56 in Sultanpur tehsil, it was found that the LED light was
flashing for the BJP candidate when voters caste in favour of an independent
candidate. The Collector has confirmed it.”
He claimed
that the incident has proved that an EVM can be manipulated. “It confirms the
complaints received from across the State that votes polled by other candidates
were being registered in favour of BJP candidates. The State and the State
Election Commission had ignored them.”
He said the
Buldhana EVM fraud has affected the credibility of the free, fair and
transparent process of the elections.
Meanwhile,
the Buldhana Collector office, in a statement on Monday, said that it was
simply a technical fault in one particular EVM.
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