Stalin mentioned that two poll items didn’t tally with the tackle tags of polling station 79. An alarming irregularity got here to gentle when the EVM of polling station 208 was taken up for checking. The primary poll unit, which had the identify of Stalin printed on it, was not detected by the management unit.
With out responding to or addressing such technical glitches, the district election officer declared that the checking and verification was efficiently carried out, he mentioned, including that his authorised signatory, advocate NR Elango, refused to just accept the choice.
He mentioned the impugned order was handed arbitrarily and wholly with none purpose, in a mechanical method, and was against the rules of pure justice since a possibility of listening to was not offered to him or his authorised agent.
Referring to the failure of the management unit to detect the poll unit which carried his identify, Stalin mentioned it raises the query as to what number of extra such management items exist and what number of such poll items have gone unaccounted for.
“The district election officer neither furnished any reasoning or rationalization in anyway for this lapse nor positioned on file the technical experiences by the engineers of BEL. This renders a course of supposed to boost transparency wholly opaque and worthless,” Stalin mentioned within the petition.
He alleged that the choice of the district election officer was arbitrary, towards the rules of pure justice, and never in compliance with the usual working process and the duty of transparency.
Stating that there have been defects, failures and breaches of the chain of custody of the digital machines at polling stations 28, 75, 79, 157 and 208, Stalin famous that his vote share at these stations was 29.87%, whereas the remaining 281 stations recorded 40.74%.
