Lucknow
The Bhadohi Assembly bypoll in UP, where voting took place today, is being used by the Election Commission to test a new machine called Totalizer to ensure secrecy of votes. Since electronic voting machines provide no scope for mixing of votes, candidates gets to know the number of votes polled at a particular booth — this at times leads to victimization of voters. But the Totalizer, developed by the Bharat Electronics Ltd and Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, is connected to EVMs through a cable and votes registered in all machines are counted together.
