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EVMs to feature colour photos of candidates from Bihar polls
Millennium Post Kolkata
|Kolkata 18September2025
Starting from Bihar Assembly elections, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) will now have colour photographs of candidates.
Since 2015, the ballot papers pasted on EVMs had black and white photos of candidates which many voters found difficult to recognise.
‘The serial number will also be displayed more prominently on the machines, the Election Commission of India said on Wednesday.
This story is from the Kolkata 18September2025 edition of Millennium Post Kolkata.
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