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The Election Commission of India says it has developed a prototype for a Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine which would enable remote voting by migrant voters. The move is long overdue.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon decided not to give urgent listing for tomorrow to hear a plea seeking Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification at the beginning of counting of EVM votes instead of doing so after the counting. Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana said let the established practice of counting go on.

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Delhi High Court division bench sought response from the Centre, the Election Commission of India (ECI) in a plea by two lawyers, wherein it is alleged that the practice of offering freebies as part of electoral promises could sway away a vast majority of electorates.

As news of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s younger brother Ashim Banerjee’s death due to Covid-19 spread across the state, it was suddenly clear how much the recent elections and other religious festivities around the country have affected the fragile health infrastructure of the state.

The Commission had filed an application in the Madras High Court against its oral observation and said that media reports of the Court’s oral comments had caused grave prejudice to it.

In a letter to the Election Commission, Sarma had appealed to the organisation to dismiss the petition lodged by the Congress.

Nearly 44,000 stations would have such monitoring, covering at least 50% booths across the state. The Commission said the identification of critical and vulnerable polling booths has been done after consulting 12 major political parties.

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