Many times it has been noticed that NOTA gets more votes than all the candidates in the fray. Know another example even if the security of all the candidates of an assembly or a Lok Sabha constituency is forfeited due to maximum vote to NOTA, in such condition also the candidate who gets the maximum votes will be declared winner. Quraishi had said, "If 99 out of 100 votes are given to NOTA and just a single vote is given to a candidate then this candidate will be declared winner. NOTA votes don’t have any role in the result of the elections.įormer Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Keep in mind that the votes given to the NOTA are counted but they are considered illegal votes, i.e. So basically NOTA gives the right to voters in any constituency that if they do not want to vote for any of the candidates contesting the election they can push the button of NOTA mentioned in the EVMs.
Many times it has been observed that if people do not want to vote for any candidate due to any local issue problems such as electricity, water, roads or criminal records of the candidate, then how will they register their protest so to empower the voice of the voters the Election Commission of developed a mechanism in the voting system so that people can get the right to reject all the candidates.
#NOTA MEANING FULL#
The full form of NOTA is ‘None of the Above’. To eliminate the possibility of the election fraud EC had introduced the concept of Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) on pilot basis in Lok Sabaha elections of 8 parliamentary constituencies in 2014. Hence to empower such voter the Election commission of India introduced the concept of NOTA in the EVMs in December 2013 elections.ĮVMs were first used in India in the North Paravur constituency of Kerala in 1982, and since the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, EVMs are used in all the Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections in India. But there was no provision to boycott the elections legally. It is observed that a lot of voters don’t find any suitable candidate in their constituency so they want to boycott the elections.
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