| No Images? Click here   On April 23, the former Assam Director General of Police Hare Krishna Deka went to cast his vote in the third phase of the general election only to be threatened with arrest. The electronic voting machine in Deka’s usual polling booth in Lachitnagar Lower Primary School in Guwahati was attached to a Verified Voter Paper Audit Trail machine, Deka said, but when he cast his vote, he was shocked to see that his vote had been registered incorrectly.He alerted the polling officials, who told him to “challenge” his vote. But if the poll officers could not reproduce the glitch, they warned him, Deka — a decorated police officer — risked jail time.This is no idle threat. In Kerala, amid reports of EVM glitches in several parts of the state, voter Abin Babu from Thiruvananthapuram filed a written complaint about the VVPAT showing the wrong party. A test vote was carried out in the presence of polling officials, which showed no glitches. He was then booked by the police, before being released on bail. New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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