Bengaluru: The Election Commission, in association with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has organized awareness camps at four different locations in Bengaluru to educate people on the correct usage and working of electronic voting machines (EVM) equipped with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) systems.
Hundreds of people have stopped at the venues to learn about these machines which will be used in the assembly elections.
Stalls were set up at the Lalbagh West Gate, near the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA) in Cubbon Park, JP Park in Mathikere and Sankey Tank in Malleswaram. Sanjiv Kumar, chief electoral officer (CEO), inaugurated the camp at Lalbagh along with BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad and other officials early in the morning.
D R Ashok, joint commissioner (east), said the chance of an incorrect symbol appearing on the screen was impossible. “If anybody claims that the wrong symbol was recorded and wants to vote again, they will have to do so in the presence of the booth’s chief officer,” he said. “But they have to sign an undertaking that if the vote gets recorded correctly the second time, they can be imprisoned for fraud. This will limit any misuse.”
