Electronic Voting Machines.

Jana Sena candidate arrested for damaging EVM

April 11, 2019

A Jana Sena Party candidate in Andhra Pradesh was arrested after he damaged an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) as polling for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175-member Assembly was underway in the state…reports Asian Lite News

Electronic Voting Machines.

Madhusudan Gupta threw the EVM on the floor at a polling station in the Guntakal Assembly constituency of Anantapur district, the police said.

Gupta, who had come to cast his vote at the polling station in Gutti, was angry with the polling staff over names of Assembly and Parliament constituencies not being displayed properly.

He lifted the EVM and threw it on the floor. The machine was damaged in the incident. Gupta was immediately arrested after the incident, the police added.

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