Unhappy about malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the polling process to elect 270 councillors from the three municipal corporations on Sunday, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi sniped at the State Election Commission (SEC) over “faulty EVMs” and resultant “waste” of time.
AAP spokesperson Richa Pandey Mishra claimed people had to go back from polling stations as “several” EVMs turned out faulty while the SEC said 18 machines were “changed”.
“Many machines were faulty so people had to go back. The areas where faults were reported include Mangolpuri, Patparganj and many areas of south Delhi. In some machines, one could not hear any beep after pressing the AAP button,” she said. Pandey said the ensuing delay was avoidable as the officials took time to repair the machines.
Meanwhile, senior party leader Sanjay Singh was asked to leave a booth in Janakpuri by a polling official when he was talking to reporters inside the booth premises.
“You are done with voting so leave now,” the official was seen telling Singh in a video that was shared by hundreds on social media. Queries to Singh did not elicit any response.