MARGAO: South Goa Returning Officer, Ajit Roy has conceded that around seven Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), besides 22 VVPATs had to be replaced at some of the polling stations in the constituency on Tuesday, even as he termed the polling across the constituency as by and large peaceful.
Roy, however, hastened to add that the Election Commission had put up a good show, saying just seven out of the 810 EVMs developed technical snag, which roughly works around just one per cent.
“As many as seven EVMs and 22 VVPATs were replaced during Tuesday polling as the polling officials came across technical snags during the course of polling”, Roy said.
When asked whether the election officials did not check the machines before their commissioning, he shot back, saying all EVMs were verified and checked by polling 100 votes in the presence of the representatives of the political parties, adding “still these errors happened here and there”.
He, however, said the EC has done a wonderful job when less than one per cent of the EVMs had conked off.
