<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat today assured that the identity of those exposing electoral malpractices through the commission's mobile app will be protected.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Mr. Rawat said, the mobile app introduced by the Election Commission on a pilot basis in the recently held Karnataka assembly elections received 780 video complaints of electoral malpractices. He said, the mobile app empowers the common man to send complaints with evidences.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">About complaints of tampering of EVMs, the CEC said, there is absolutely nothing to doubt the integrity of the system. He said, such allegations against EVMs made by political parties are a means of seeking a scapegoat route.</span></p>
News On AIR | June 2, 2018 9:07 PM
EC assures that identity of those reporting electoral malpractices through commission's mobile app will be protected