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Ballot papers should be used in place of EVMs in elections: Akhilesh

Lucknow, Mar 21 (UNI) Reiterating that ballot papers should be used instead of Electronic Voting Machines in elections, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Wednesday that public has no faith in EVMs and in democracy faith of public is most important.

Addressing the meeting of legislators here, Mr Yadav said complaints of technical faults in EVMs came during Gorakhpur and Phulpur by-polls. Voting was halted for hours due to technical faults in EVMs which created troubles for many voters, he said, adding that if ballot papers were used in those by-polls the victory margin would have been much larger.
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