Mysore/Mysuru, April 19 -- Glitches discovered during poll data input

Even as the Supreme Court reserved its judgement on Apr. 18 regarding a plea seeking cross-verification of votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), complaints of malfunctioning EVMs, VVPAT machines, and Control Units have been reported from various Assembly Constituencies in Mysuru Lok Sabha segment this morning.

These malfunctioning machines are being returned to the headquarters in Mysuru to be deposited back for rectification.

Officials, seeking anonymity told Star of Mysore, an average of 40 to 60 machines were found malfunctioning during the process of inputting candidate names and symbols into the EVMs and...