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Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections successful Tamil Nadu, the EVM (electronic voting machine) first-level checking began connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) astatine the physics voting instrumentality retention warehouse successful Chintadripet.
According to a property release, the first-level checking of the EVMs would proceed for astir a month, and 250 to 300 machines would beryllium checked each day. Officials would archetypal inspect the machines for defects, unfastened them to cheque for the beingness of immoderate material, and verify the functioning of the buttons. Three abstracted teams would analyse the machines, the merchandise stated.
The machines recovered to beryllium functioning decently astatine each stages would beryllium acceptable speech for predetermination use, portion those with defects would beryllium sent to the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) portion successful Bengaluru. It mentioned that the territory presently had 6,603 power units, 13,631 EVMs, and 7,310 elector verifiable insubstantial audit way (VVPAT) units, each of which would beryllium checked successful the beingness of enactment representatives.
Chennai District Election Officer and Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J. Kumaraguruburaran held the inspection with officials and representatives of recognised governmental parties.
