EC sets up a 24-hour control room to look after complaints on EVMs

On a day it rejected claims that the casting ballot machines utilized in the Lok Sabha election were being exchanged with crisp ones in front of checking of votes on May 23, the Election Commission Tuesday set up a 24-hour control room here to screen complaints identifying with EVMs.

"The complaints identified with capacity issues at strong rooms, security of strong rooms, consents to possibility to post their specialists at strong rooms, CCTV checking, development of any EVMs, and any complaints amid tallying identified with EVMs can be educated at control room, number is 011-23052123 (with 5 chasing lines)," it said in an announcement.

Alluding to the charges and complaints, the commission prior in the day said it might want to "emphatically and unambiguously" elucidate that every single such report and claims are "completely false and truly inaccurate." The visuals on TV and social media “don’t relate to any EVMs utilized amid the polls", it said.

In a prior explanation, the EC stated, after the end of polls, all polled EVMs and VVPATs are brought under security spread to assigned strong rooms, which are fixed with twofold secures within the sight of applicants and onlookers of the commission.

The whole procedure of capacity and fixing of the strong room is video recorded.

"Ceaseless CCTV camera inclusion is done till fruition of tallying. Every strong room is protected with nonstop security by Central Armed Police Forces.