Presidential Election 2022 LIVE Updates: Voting to elect 15th President of India begins
President Election 2022 LIVE Updates: The counting of votes will take place at Parliament House on July 21 and the next President will take oath on July 25.
President Election 2022 LIVE Updates: Voting to elect the 15th President of India began at 10 am today, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi among those voting for the presidential elections.
Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs will vote today, to elect the 15th President of India, with NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu having a clear edge over Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha as more than 60 per cent of votes are expected to be cast in her favour. The polling, which began in Parliament House and state legislative assemblies at 10 am will continue till 5 pm.
The counting of votes will take place at Parliament House on July 21 and the next President will take oath on July 25. The system of the secret ballot is followed and parties cannot issue whips to their MPs and MLAs with regard to voting. The value of the vote of a member of Parliament has gone down to 700 from 708 in this presidential poll due to the absence of a legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir.
Electoral fate of Murmu, Sinha to be stored in ballot boxes
In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, backed by the opposition are the two candidates.
The EVMs, officials explained, are not designed to register this system of voting. The EVM is an aggregator of votes and under the system of proportional representation, the machine will have to compute votes based on preference and it requires an altogether different technology.
In other words, a different type of EVM would be needed.
In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, more than 10 lakh EVMs were used in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the country.
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