An electronic voting machine raised many eyebrows across Assam during a mandatory mock poll in Jorhat on 1 April. Every time a button was pressed, the vote went in favour of BJP, a report in a national daily said on 4 April. The Jorhat parliamentary constituency returning officer and deputy commissioner Vishal Vasant Solanki was quoted as saying that all EVMs in his custody are being put through a second level of test by engineers of the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), one of the two companies from Hyderabad, which manufactures EVMs. Assam goes to the polls on April 7.
AN EVM THAT ‘VOTES’ ONLY FOR BJP STUNS POLL STAFF IN ASSAM
An electronic voting machine raised many eyebrows across Assam during a mandatory mock poll in Jorhat on 1 April. Every time a button was pressed, the vote went in favour of BJP, a report in a national daily said on 4 April.
