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"Why has the Election Commission of India (EC) stopped sharing exact data about the numbers of votes polled ever since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections? Why is accessing votes polled data from EC even under Right To Information (RTI), getting tougher?"
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/votes-polled-is-key-data-why-is-election-commission-hiding-it#read-more

This decision(in July, 2017) was never carried out.
"The decision on compulsory counting of paper trail slips, which was approved by the full Commission before Nasim Zaidi retired as the CEC on Wednesday, is a response to the demand made by political.."
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ec-to-tally-paper-trail-slips-with-evms-in-5-pc-booths-in-each-assembly-seat-4737936/

ECI claimed it will take 6 days to tally 50% VVPATs in SC. It also claimed all 1500 VVPAT tallies till date have perfectly matched. There was well recorded VVPAT tally mismatches in at least Telangana & Gujarat elections but EC committed perjury in SC.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/50-vvpat-verification-will-delay-lok-sabha-election-results-by-6-days-eci-tells-sc/article26673905.ece/amp/

In Telangana at least 20 lakh voters couldn't vote due to the targeted deletion by Aadhaar-voterid linking. EC denied it even in HC when opposition parties filed case regarding this before Telangana election. #Perjury
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/2018/oct/24/cec-justifies-deletion-of-voters-in-telangana-1889530.html

EC kept delaying the decision of no VVPATs to be tallied citing they are waiting for an ISI report on same. Later the report was revealed several days after declaring 2019 G?E, it turned out to be a tailor made report which had nothing much to do with ISI.
https://www.newsclick.in/vvpat-so-called-isi-committee-and-mathematics-real-world

"On 22 May, the EC uploaded another data set which said “Final voter turnout of Phase 1 to 7”. But this data was shrunk into total votes polled per State in each phase."
EC kept changing the total votes polled data after 2019 G?E #form17C
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/lok-sabha-2019-ec-press-release-misleading-public-on-evm-vote-counting#read-more

“The 2019 GE appear to have been one of the least free and fair elections that the country has had in the past three decades or so,” 64 former IAS, IFS, IPS & IRS officers said in an open letter to the EC. The letter h.."
There has been no response from EC
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/retired-officials-veterans-and-academics-remind-election-commission-of-transgressions/cid/1693681

The letter has been reiterated in OCT 2019 on @consticonduct site seeming due to non response from EC
https://constitutionalconduct.com/2019/10/04/letter-to-the-election-commission-of-india-serious-irregularities-in-the-conduct-of-general-elections-2019/

"The used or printed VVPAT slips in any election... shall be retained for one year and shall thereafter be destroyed,” says Rule 94 (b) of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961. But The Quint has found that the EC has already destroyed the printed VVPAT.."
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/why-did-election-commission-destroy-evm-voting-machine-vvpat-slips-of-2019-lok-sabha-polls

This letter by CCE dated 2 may 22 has been followed up twice upto current CEC.
"Compliance of EVM voting with basic and essential requirements of ‘Democracy Principles’ and integrity and credibility of electronic voting and counting in Electoral .." https://reclaimtherepublic.co/2022/05/30/compliance-of-evm-voting-with-basic-and-essential-requirements-of-democracy-principles-and-integrity-and-credibility-of-electronic-voting-and-counting-in-electoral-democracy-posers/

In this article shri M G Devasahayam of CCE has revealed there has been no response from EC.
"While showing its excessive obsession with technology, the EC has disregarded not just RTIs but also often repeated questions on the sanctity of EVMs.."
https://thewire.in/government/before-celebrating-remote-voting-ec-should-address-longstanding-questions-on-the-evm