Besides several assembly constituencies, polling which happened yesterday in kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Bhandara-Gondia and Palghar in maharashtra and nagaland, VVPATs seemed to have been malfunctioning especially in Kairana and Gondia-Bhandara region. The Election Commission were forced to use over 1200 reserve machines and announced that it will take a call on the extent of repolling today after receiving several similar reports from its observers. reports and allegations of EVMs were reported throughout yesterday as the Election commission claimed that the machines got diluted due to extreme heat. Meanwhile the opposition parties too have raised their issues and criticized the use of EVM machines. repolling will happen today in the affected areas. In the recent karnataka assembly election around 1700 VVPAT machines too were found to have glitches during the polling. With the major elections happening within a year, the Election Commisions should definitely take care of it as more such issues might effect the electoral procedure of the largest democracy in the world.
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