How Two Lok Sabha Candidates Turned EVM Defeats Into Postal Ballot Victories
06 Jun 2024 11:36 AM IST
However, following the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) modified the guidelines due to the increased number of postal ballots, driven by the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) and the mandatory counting of VVPAT slips from five randomly selected polling stations. The new directive, issued on May 18, 2019, allowed EVM counting to proceed irrespective of the stage of postal ballot counting.