India, June 24 -- Eighty electronic voting machines would be used to cast vote in today's election under the first general convention of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP).

Chief of Central Election Commission, Bhuwan KC, said that votes would be cast by incorporating names and photos of candidates in the machines after the publication of the final list of the candidates.

Stating that they have been carrying out activities with a target of conducting first-phase voting from this afternoon, he mentioned that five electronic voting machines would be used for sample voting.

More than 400 candidates are in the election fray. It would take additional time in voting as candidacies have been filed in different clusters.

KC added that the...