German Minister observes security features in EVM-VVPAT usage
   Date :07-Dec-2022

EVM-VVPAT usage 
 
 
 
NEW DELHI, 
GERMAN Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock-led delegation met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel here on Tuesday.
The German Foreign Minister was accompanied by four MPs -- Agnieszka Brugger, Thomas Erndl, Ulrich Lechte, Andreas Larem -- and Philipp Ackermann, Ambassador to India and a few other officers from her Foreign Office.
Speaking on the occasion, CEC Rajiv Kumar said that the idea of democracy was deeply rooted in India’s historical context and traditions. Giving an overview of the magnitude of Indian elections, he informed the German delegation of the detailed exercise that the ECI conducts for over 950 million voters across 1.1 million polling stations, co-opting 11 million polling personnel ensuring robust electoral processes for conducting free, fair, inclusive, accessible and participative elections.
The German Foreign Minister while interacting with the Commission appreciated the vast exercise of electoral management by ECI in the largest democracy in the world given the challenges of diverse geography, culture and electorate in India. The German Minister was briefed about the extensive use of technology by the ECI in the conduct of elections broadly under three verticals of voters’ participation, political parties/candidates and election machinery logistics.