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State gets 8,000 more EVMs

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN 28. The Election Commission has allotted 8,000 new Electronic Voting Machines(EVMs) to Andhra Pradesh, taking the total EVMs available in the State to 75,000.

With this, the State will be in a position to conduct Assembly elections completely through electronic voting. However, the State requires at least 65,000 more EVMs if the elections to the Lok Sabha are to be conducted simultaneously as is being speculated, at two EVMs for each polling station and 25 per cent more as reserve. This issue is being taken up at the forthcoming meeting of CEOs with the Election Commission at Delhi on February 4.

Giving this information to reporters here today, the Chief Electoral Officer, M. Narayana Rao, said the delivery of the additional 8,000 EVMs would be made by the ECIL in the second week of March.

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