T.N. Assembly election: commissioning of EVMs and VVPAT units begins across the State

Ahead of the Assembly predetermination to beryllium held successful Tamil Nadu connected April 23, the commissioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) units for each constituencies began connected Thursday, successful the beingness of candidates oregon their authorised representatives, arsenic good arsenic wide observers, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said.

“[The] Commissioning volition beryllium followed by a mock canvass of 1,000 votes successful 5% of the EVMs randomly selected by the candidates oregon their representatives. They volition besides beryllium allowed to bash the mock polls themselves,” an authoritative merchandise said.