handbook for presiding officers - Chief Electoral Officer, Govt. of Sikkim

with this strip seal from all sides and this section cannot be opened without
damaging this seal.
11. Introduction of Upgraded Model of Electronic Voting Machine
In the year 2007 the Election Commission of India introduced the upgraded
model of the Electronic Voting Machine and used it for the first time in the
General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur held in 2007. The
appearance and features of the voting machines manufactured by both BEL,
Bangalore and ECIL, Hyderabad are more or less the same except for a few
additional features/modifications..
11.1 Additional features -
(a)
Numeric in Braille signage (1 to 16) has been provided on the Balloting
Unit (BU) top cover on the right of the blue button for each contesting
candidate for the convenience of the visually challenged (blind)
persons.
11.2 Modifications –
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
In the Display Panel, there is only one window now instead of two
windows in the existing model.
The Display Panel now displays the data on two rows of total twenty
four characters (twelve characters in each row).
The hood of the connector attached to the interconnecting cable, one
end of which is permanently fixed to the Balloting Unit, has now been
provided with different coloured spring clips on both sides - one
BLACK and the other RED. One side of female socket in the rear
compartment of the Control Unit is in RED colour for easy identification
at the time of insertion of the connector into the female socket. The
RED spring clip has to match with the RED side of the socket and the
BLACK spring clip has to match with the BLACK side of the socket.
The ‘RESULT I‘ button in the Result Section has been replaced with a
new ‘RESULT’ button.
The ‘RESULT II’ button in the Result Section has been removed and in
its place a new button ‘PRINT’ has been provided. The upgraded
model of the voting machine has been provided with the facility to print
the result data. A special gadget is to be attached at data interface
connector at the rear side of the Control Unit for printing. When the
‘PRINT’ button is pressed, the Control Unit displays ‘PRINTING’. For
printing result data, the result has to be seen at least once.
The inner cover of the Result Section covering the ‘RESULT’ and
‘PRINT’ buttons has been provided with a single window for inserting
green paper seal like in the existing model of ECIL make of the