Jaipur
The district administration exhibited these machines in a van at Gaurav Tower during the evening hours.
Updated : Sep 16, 2018, 06:30 AM IST
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State government machinery has started gearing up for the preparations of assembly elections in the state. On Saturday, in Malviya Nagar constituency, voters were shown the working of EVM and VVPAT. The district administration exhibited these machines in a van at Gaurav Tower during the evening hours.
Officials informed that people who were anxious to know were asked to do mock voting so that they can see how the EVM and the VVPAT machine works. The youth, students and the people who had come to Gaurav Tower to do shopping took some time and tried their hands on the mock voting using these two machines. This will be for the first time that in assembly elections in the state, the VVPAT machine will be used.
In the by-polls for Lok Sabha, which were held in the state earlier in the year in Ajmer and Alwar, VVPAT machines were used. After the doubts were raised on the authenticity of EVM’s the use of VVPAT, which acts as a second checkpoint, has been started by the election commission and therefore the district administration and election office of the state have started making the voters aware about the working of these machines. The activities related to making voters aware of voting in the elections is also being started in the city.
Several awareness programs under “Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation” (SVEEP) are being started to make the voters aware of the election process. District collector and district election officer Siddharth Mahajan informed that on Sunday, the process related to VVPAT machine and EVM will be shown in Vidyadhar Nagar assembly area at National Handloom, near Hypercity in Jhotwara and other places.
Under the SVEEP drive, rangoli making, drawing competition etc will be organised in schools in Malviya Nagar assembly area. Meanwhile, the chief election commissioner of India Omprakash Rawat along with election commissioner Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa will visit the city on a two-day visit from Monday. They will be here to know about the election preparations. Giving the information, chief election officer of state Anand Kumar informed that commission will also be meeting the political parties on Monday at SMS Convention Centre in Jaipur.
Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is the machine used to record the votes polled to a particular candidate. It has name and symbol of all the candidates in fray and has a button against each name. When pressed against a particular name, it records the vote for him. The main controlling unit of this EVM is with the presiding officer.
Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines are used to verify that a vote polled by a particular voter has gone to the candidate for whom the voter has pushed the button in EVM. When the voter presses button in EVM, the VVPAT machine prints a slip having the name of candidate and election symbol to which voter has voted. Its visible to the voter only for few seconds after which VVPAT machine cuts it and it drops into a box.
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