Big change in Punjab voter list verification schedule, date pushed to August 3
The Election Commission of India has issued fresh orders changing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision schedule for voter registries in Punjab.
The Election Commission of India has issued fresh orders changing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision schedule for voter registries in Punjab.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is progressing rapidly across Haryana.
The Election Commission of India on Friday organised its second one-day conference for Media and Communication Officers, with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioner Vivek Joshi calling for proactive efforts to counter misinformation, deepfakes and false narratives while strengthening public confidence in the country's electoral process.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday sought responses from rival factions of the All India Trinamool Congress regarding competing claims about the party's organisational elections and authorised signatories, signalling the poll body's intervention in the internal dispute.
The seat fell vacant after Nitin Nabin resigned as an MLA following his appointment as the National President of the BJP.
Briefing meetings were held in three batches on Thursday and Friday at the ECI for 1444 officers, including 714 general observers, 233 police observers and 497 expenditure observers for the Assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
In a statement, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale said ECI officials had now acknowledged that software-related errors were responsible for the deletion of names of legitimate voters from the electoral rolls.
The Trinamool Congress on Friday accused the Election Commission of India of presiding over “massive deletions” from the voter list in West Bengal, alleging that the removals were caused by a “mysterious faulty software” used by the poll body.
The last such conference was held in 1999. The upcoming event aims to strengthen institutional coordination between the ECI and State Election Commissions amid an increasingly complex electoral environment.
He said that the presence of the Booth Level Officer (BLO) concerned will be mandatory at the Voter Assistance Centers from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM on every working day.
