Mysore/Mysuru: With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the district administration has geared up for randomisation of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs) and Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), that would be done once the Election Commission of India (ECI) announces the poll schedule, which is likely to happen any time after Mar.10.
The EVMs and VVPATs are stored in the EVM warehouse located in the premises of the new DC Office on Bannur Road in Siddarthanagar. After the arrival of EVMs and VVPATs from Secunderabad last year, the first level checking was conducted, following which the EVMs, which were found faulty or dysfunctional were sent back to the supplier — Government run Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) at Secunderabad in Telangana. Subsequently, the ECIL dispatched equal number of replacements after making all checks.
