General Elections to Loksabha 2024 Gazette Notification for use of EVM and VVPAT

General Elections to Loksabha 2024 Gazette Notification for use of EVM and VVPAT

No.576/3/EVM/2024/SDR-Vol.-I:- Whereas, Section 61A of the Representation of the People
Act, 1951, provides that the giving and recording of votes by voting machines in such manner as may
be prescribed, may be adopted in such constituency or constituencies as the Election Commission of
India may, having regard to the circumstances of each case, specify;

2. Whereas, as per the proviso to Rule 49A of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, a printer

with a drop box of such design, as may be approved by the Election Commission of India, may also
be attached to voting machine for printing a paper trail of the vote, in such constituency or
constituencies or parts thereof as the Election Commission of India may direct;

3. Whereas, the Election Commission has considered the circumstances in all the

Parliamentary Constituencies of Lok Sabha, all the Assembly Constituencies of Andhra
Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha & Sikkim at the current general elections, 2024 and in 26 Assembly Constituencies (as per Annexure-1) in 13 States at the current bye-elections,
announced vide the Election Commission’s Press Notes No. ECI/PN/23/2024& ECI/PN/24/2024
both dated 16th, March 2024, and is satisfied that sufficient number of Electronic Voting Machines
(EVMs) and Printers for printing Paper Trail [Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)] are
available for taking the poll in all the Parliamentary Constituencies and all the Assembly
Constituencies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim and in 26 Assembly
Constituencies (as per Annexure-1) of 13 States. The polling personnel are well trained in efficient
handling of EVMs and ‘VVPAT Printers’ and the electors are also fully conversant with the operation
of the EVMs and the VVPAT Printers;

4. Now, therefore, the Election Commission of India, in exercise of its powers under the said

Section 61A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, and Rule 49A of the Conduct of Elections
Rules, 1961, hereby specifies all the Parliamentary Constituencies of the Lok Sabha, all the
Assembly Constituencies of the legislative assemblies ofAndhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh,
Odisha & Sikkim at the current General Elections, 2024and 26 Assembly Constituencies (as
per Annexure-1) in13 states at the current bye-election, as per the schedule announced by the
Election Commission on 16th March, 2024,as the constituencies inwhich the votes, shall be given
and recorded by means of EVMs and VVPAT printers in the manner prescribed, under the Conduct
of Elections Rules, 1961, and the supplementary instructions issued by the Election Commission from
time to time on the subject.

5. The Election Commission also hereby approves the design of EVMs and VVPAT Printers as

developed by the Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore and Electronics Corporation of India Ltd.,
Hyderabad, which shall be attached to the said machines, to be used for the giving and recording of
votes in all the Constituencies.

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