EVM to have pics of candidates

Jaipur, January 19

The electronic voting machines (EVMs) in Rajasthan’s byelections will have photographs of candidates, Chief Election Officer said on Friday. The byelections are due on January 29 in Ajmer and Alwar parliamentary and Mandalgarh Assembly seats.

Though the same procedure was followed for the Dholpur Assembly bypoll in Rajasthan last year, according to the Chief Election Officer, this time it will be done for the very first time in any Lok Sabha poll. “The arrangement was made to make sure there was no confusion on candidates with similar names contesting elections,” Rajasthan’s Chief Election Officer Ashwani Bhagat said. 

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Under the new system, 2.5-cm photographs of contesting candidates will be displayed on the EVM. The EVM will have the name of the candidate, photo and the election symbol. However, for NOTA option, the space for the photograph will be left blank. — PTI