No requests received for EVM burnt-memory verification in Bihar polls: ECI

New Delhi, Nov 27: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday said that not a single request was received from losing candidates for verification of the burnt memory or microcontroller of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the recently concluded 2025 Bihar Assembly elections and associated bye-elections in eight states.
The Commission clarified that despite provisions allowing such checks, no candidate from any of the 243 Assembly constituencies in Bihar or the eight seats that went to bypolls sought the verification.
As per the Supreme Court’s directions, the ECI had issued a revised SoP on June 17, 2025, enabling candidates who finished in the second or third position to apply for post-counting verification of EVMs within seven days of the declaration of results.
“Election Commission of India ECI has marked several firsts with the successful conduct of the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, 2025,” the ECI said in its press note.
“Mandatory verification of VVPAT slips was done for 5 randomly selected polling stations per Assembly Constituency (total 1,215 polling stations) and no discrepancy was found with the EVM count anywhere,” it said. (IANS)