New Delhi: Poll authorities in Bihar have not received any application from candidates who were defeated in the recently-held Assembly polls with a request for EVM burnt-memory or microcontroller verification, the Election Commission (EC) said on Thursday.
It said no similar request was received for the eight Assembly bypolls held along with the second phase of polling in the Bihar election on November 11.
Following directions from the Supreme Court, the EC had issued revised standard operating procedures on post-counting checking and the verification of burnt memory or microcontroller of electronic voting machines (EVMs) on June 17, under which candidates at serial number 2 or 3, behind the highest-polled candidates, could seek checking and verification of EVMs within seven days of the declaration of the poll results.
The poll panel said it has marked several firsts with the successful conduct of the Bihar Assembly elections. Mandatory verification of VVPAT slips was done for five randomly selected polling stations per Assembly constituency (total 1,215 polling stations) and no discrepancy was found in the EVM count anywhere, it said.
The EC said there were zero appeals against wrongful inclusion or exclusion of any elector after Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar in any of the 38 districts from any of the electors or any of the 12 recognised political parties. No re-polls were requested by any of the 2,616 candidates or by any of the 12 recognised political parties, it said.
It further said that index cards for Bihar elections and by-elections in eight Assembly seats, have been made available for the first time within 72 hours of the declaration of the poll results.
Additionally, the set of statistical reports was made available in the public domain, free of cost, within five days of the conclusion of the Bihar Elections 2025, thereby promoting transparency and ensuring accessible election-related data for all stakeholders, including academia, researchers, and the general public, it added.
