[Chd,Pb]Over 1.5 Lakh Punjabis Pressed “NOTA”
1,54,423 voters (1.12 per cent of total votes polled) pressed the NOTA option,
Among 13 Lok Sabha seats, it was Faridkot constituency where maximum number of voters rejected the candidates. A total of 19,246 voters in Faridkot went for NOTA, as per EC data available.
In Anandpur Sahib, 17,135 voters opted for NOTA option, while in Ferozepur the figure was 14,891.
On almost all the constituencies in Punjab, NOTA occupied the fifth spot, as per data available.
A total of 13,323 voters opted for NOTA in Bathinda,
followed by 13,045 in Fatehgarh Sahib,
12,868 in Hoshiarpur,
12,324 in Jalandhar,
11,110 in Patiala,
10,538 in Ludhiana,
9,560 in Gurdaspur,
8,763 in Amritsar,
6,490 in Sangrur and
5,130 in Khadoor Sahib.
Interestingly, the percentage of NOTA votes was more than the vote percentage of some political parties like CPI and CPM in the state, the EC said.
Tag: Elections 2019
Over 1.5 Lakh[1.12% Of Votes] Punjabis Pressed “NOTA”
Govt Requisitions For Rs 1.6 K Cr For EVM Suppliers
[New Delhi]Govt Requisitions For Rs 1.6 K Cr For EVM Suppliers
The government has sought over Rs 1,637 crore in the current fiscal to allow the law ministry make payments to two suppliers of EVMs and paper trail machines ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
These machines would be deployed at the nearly 10.6 lakh polling stations across India in the next parliamentary elections.
The Bharat Electronics Ltd and the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd were mandated to deliver these machines to the poll panel by September 30, 2018.
In case of an error with the VVPAT, the machine is replaced with a reserve. But in case a ballot unit or control unit malfunctions, the entire set of ballot unit, control unit and VVPAT is replaced.
Till date, EVMs have been used in 113 Assembly elections and three Lok Sabha elections since 2000.
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