{"id":89607,"date":"2019-04-17T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:45:25","slug":"plea-in-sc-to-ensure-safety-of-evms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plea-in-sc-to-ensure-safety-of-evms\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea in SC to ensure safety of EVMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A plea in the Supreme Court has sought\ndirections to the Election Commission to ensure safety and security of EVMs\nafter 2019 Lok Sabha polls. <\/li><li>The petitioners have raised concern that a long\ngap between the polling and counting dates of the polls, make the EVMs\nsusceptible to tampering during post-poll seclusion.<\/li><li>EVM or Electronic Voting Machines are used to\ncast vote without revealing voter\u2019s identity. It is attached by a cable to an\nelectronic ballot box. It comprises of two units \u2013 control unit and balloting\nunit. The control unit is with the Election Commission selected polling officer\nwhile the Balloting Unit is in the voting section into which the voter enters\nto cast their vote.<\/li><li>There are only two Indian PSUs that manufacture\nEVM Machines-Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of\nIndian Limited (ECIL).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plea in the Supreme Court has sought directions to the Election Commission to ensure safety and security of EVMs after 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The petitioners have raised concern that a long gap between the polling and counting dates of the polls, make the EVMs susceptible to tampering during post-poll seclusion. EVM or Electronic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plea-in-sc-to-ensure-safety-of-evms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plea in SC to ensure safety of EVMs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-89607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-evm","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704660603},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}