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In this episode we talk about the voting

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process and the supreme court would it regarding

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it. Will. All to talk about. Astra

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Zeneca Admitting that it's over nineteen vaccine

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core we shield was his blood clots.

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But. First we talk about why Hong

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Kong and Singapore withdrew products from him

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d and Everest. Hi

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I'm the had a gun under a new

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else can do three things they the and

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express news show. Last

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week Hong Kong and Singapore with

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do for space mixes from too

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often desktops. basement of factors mph

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an interest after finding high levels

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of Italy not salem them. A.

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Pesticide which is known to cause cancer.

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To. Understand how Ethylene oxide affects the

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body and how Indian authorities have

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responded to this. Indian Express is

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unknown that joins us. Are

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no know what have the Hong Kong

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and Singapore Authority said while redrawing the

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spice mixes. Saw. Vote

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the authorities are star you know

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shopkeepers the nerve to withdraw these

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spice mix is from the shelves.

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There were I think are some

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four or five products across both

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countries that are will be drawn

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and this was because of the

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presence of a compound called a

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oxide in them. This so compound

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is known to be carcinogenic to

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human beings. So the I R

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C which is a wh a

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group that don't make Dean's list

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of things that our gas not.

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Any to human beings the have a

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categorized as to Lean Oxide as the

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group one carcinogen. Which. Is like

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the most to carcinogenic. And

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could you tell us what exactly is it?

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Clean oxide and in what way is known

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to affect the body? So.

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Basically Ethylene oxide is

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a pesticide and it

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is usually used in

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the fumigation offer crops

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to prevent a bacterial

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infections like go equal

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I and salmonella so

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maybe that's where this

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can. They didn't get into the

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sky snakes from as I said

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it's a known carcinogen means it

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can increase the risk of fall

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that he stands as in people.

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And also like it can lead

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to certain know the in the

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investments. That's how it would affect. And

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tell us what kind of regulations are

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there in Indiana? Guarding It's enough. Hate.

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When. We look a star Singapore and

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Hong Kong the said that.the as

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he not side levels were more

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than what is formatted but when

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I'm not familiar with the laws

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in those countries in India as

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mean outside is not permitted at

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all in our food products and

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these as as I see I

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which is the Indian food regulator

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does not so delete this product

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said going out to Sunday but

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it's you distinction is on the

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safety of food items. Which are

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being sold him within India. And

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our to ensure that door that is

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no problem that exists in India the

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have now on the t in the

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days to test the spice mix is

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our that are available in India. And

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Imo nominate comes to the Food,

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Sci Fi and Standards Authority of

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India. I've got any specific spice

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leader regulations of checks that need

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to be cured before being said

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that the public. Of cause

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this is especially guys that are as

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is his eyes undertaking after these the

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news reports has come out of by

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to are usually spices and like any

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other food boot up the visible in

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the market is a unison bridge that

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is and i'm very food safety officer

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and on the have a prescribed said

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to space to check for various couldn't

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determine and for for example like for

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milk they would have said him them

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for the men's light duty are being

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the things that are most commonly. Found

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in that their that suffered as the

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food brought up. The have this list

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of most common contaminants and they have

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a specified to check for these goddamn

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and. At a time when Hong

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Kong and Singapore has it's own spice mix, I'm

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in Viet. Nam learned that Us

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authorities have refused about one third

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of all spicer it's offense by

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Mbs over the last six months.

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What do we know about that? So. From

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what I've seen in that apart

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from the us that has been

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any three souls or yeah i

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think that his ex me it

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was about self esteem percent and or

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that has there been any reason

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that and that have been mean the

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attribute it to salmonella contamination in

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the. Space mixes. So.

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Well that's a different than son altogether.

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But yes all of these new together

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have brought. The of space mixes in

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in down as in. So.

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I'm I'm A. you mention that assesses the

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I is now one two tests places in

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India. Do. We know then that afford

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can be made available. Soon as

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I can say is right now

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collecting samples, more just of MDs

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and their best, it's collecting of

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all the brands from across. Ones.

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The samples have been selected and are

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processed in the lab. It will also

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think some are trying to put together

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a national report so as as as

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health issues as said the that are

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consolidated support can be. Expected in

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about though twenty diesel, so.

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I'm next to talk about the voting

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process last Friday the Supreme Court as

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if it means that proposed changes to

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the parent would and mechanism number. Dismayed

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in The keys, the Association for Democratic

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Reforms had demanded that we should return

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to using paper ballots, stay busy, that

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slips should be visited encountered and that

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be sniffed should be handed to the

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voters to Santa Fe before the drop

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of and abetted bucks. No way.

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The key for the paper ballots was. Later withdrawn

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by the petitioner the supreme court and

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afford it rejected. The other to praise as

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well. And. While that has no

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chance for the water, the photos now

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that did. The lessons on the simple

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include a symbol loading unit and microcontrollers

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to the verification process. To. Know more

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about the seems and what's happened. Then a

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candidate, Salinger's that is Ice Indian Express

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his ah many Not joins us. Domini.

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To begin with, can you explain to

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us what exactly happens when of water

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postal costs? That would. Like

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so of the thought of water and go

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through a boiling season before thing to do

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with make sure that they had endured on

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the left or at all and sec their

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name on the electorate or find out where

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they're born in more than and accordingly go

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to that location. went to go to a

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polling booths that though thing to remember is

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that you have the caddy of water id

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all other ideas like the odd Hawes if

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you don't have old lady a food and

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all the war does that a of water

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in a particular polling booth you have allowed

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to vote even without. Award Id card as

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long as it on that old in that area.

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So. When you enter you have to first

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are they take your name on the water

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Is that accurate? Id prove a point in

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offices and or than a mark on your

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finger and or take a signature on it

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as is still. Then you'll be asked to

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boy into the whole thing compartment which is

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kind of cordoned off from the rest of

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the polling booth. And. Of though

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even or ballots in Adobe in front

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of you A you make your choice

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and you hear a loud beep which

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means that your choices and record it

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and net so that would be as

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easy bad machine where you will find

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the candidate is selected the name is

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Emma again and refunded on a piece

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of paper in that we the that

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machine it as the in front of

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you for seven seconds then it'll get

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fucked and the up into though com

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button below. And. Nominee when

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it comes to the even, it

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requires certain amount of preparation. Before

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just would be was by the borders

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on that is made to seem looting

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unit. Or. That you comes in. So.

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Who do penance of what exactly that is?

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That. An easy am a sense to me

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is t different parts it is so

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control unit the ballot unit which is

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the one that the water uses of

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gaza board and of easy but with

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as the paper auditors machine. So.

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according to the election commission though

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EVM ballot unit, control unit and

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a VV pad, they all have

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microcontrollers or memories which are

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programmed at the time of manufacture.

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These basically are done agnostic of

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the candidate or party. There is

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no information for a particular constituency

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or a particular candidate on these

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memories according to the EC. But

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when it's time for elections, just

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a few days before polling, when

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candidates of the particular constituency have

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been decided, a process called symbol

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loading is undertaken. A symbol loading

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unit or SLU is basically a

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memory. It's attached to a laptop

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or PC. From there,

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a bitmap file containing information of

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the name, symbol and serial number

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of the candidates of that constituency

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is loaded onto this SLU. This

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SLU is then connected onto the VV

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pad and it transfers this file onto

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the VV pad. So this is the

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only point in the entire pre-voting process

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where the candidates details are loaded onto

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the machines. So, Ramani recently,

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the Supreme Court gave directions to

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the election commission regarding the SLU

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and the microcontrollers. Can you

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talk about what it said? So

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the Supreme Court on the 26th

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of April gave its judgment in

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another case where the EVMs were

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challenged again. The petitioners had wanted

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the court to consider 100% verification

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of EVPAD slips or a return

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to paper ballots. The Supreme Court

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declined both these, please. However, it

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gave two directions. One

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direction the court said was that the

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SLU would have to be stored along

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with the EVM and EVPAD for a

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period of 45 days after results are

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announced for a particular election. As of

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now, the EVMs are kept for 45

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days because that is the time allowed

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for candidates or electors to challenge an

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election through an election petition. Now with

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the court's verdict, this SLU also becomes

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a part of the devices that are

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kept for 45 days in case there

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is a challenge to that particular election.

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The second part of the court's judgment

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What about his microcontrollers daddy microcontrollers

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in the valid unit than told

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us any the that it has

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to do than the in the

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Quarter said that the candidates who

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comes second or third in a

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particular election day would have the

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opportunity to see for verification of

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five percent of the even microcontrollers

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in this column. and she gusto

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and Ceos Us and Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Thought. Within seven days off results

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been announced. A candidate can give

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it in writing that they want

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these microcontrollers to. We verified these

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will then be open and checked

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by Don't Engineers have to do.

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Even manufacturing companies along with those

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little fishes and candidates are present

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It as is that. right?

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And nominee can you tell us what happens

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is an idiot question? See what in process

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or the design of the next month? So.

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The candidates even now they can challenge or

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that I've seen within forty five days of

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the process is Susan pulled out too broad

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support of and file an election petition as

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us Now the easy answer get stored in

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case of them less than petition. Now with

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the course that's when even as the news.

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And the Sword for that period. Now

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it is depending on the election commission

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to implement these orders. Election commission will

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have to put out standard operating procedures

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of how this will work. What happens

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in Guess a Candidate challenges is what

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happens if a candidate once as a

11:23

news to be inspected so that directions

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on mission will. Have to come up

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with the procedures. And. In Giza

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devices, I found to be tampered with what

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happens in that case. So. Of

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the court has said that as us

11:36

now the candidates the last to bear

11:38

the expense of hurting verification of the

11:40

microcontroller birthdays A microcontroller have been found

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to be tampered with, don't have address

11:44

of beauty funded and or the court

11:46

and of course as an option of

11:48

counseling that election and auditing. As on

11:50

for that consistency. And nominee

11:53

does this? Would it bring anything into

11:55

tone for the would us. The.

11:57

Voting process for the water doesn't change at

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all. the Supreme Court's judgment. It is

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just that the candidates get another

12:03

opportunity to seek more transparency and

12:05

accountability in case they feel that

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there is something wrong with the

12:10

particular election. And

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in the end, we talk about the COVID-19

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vaccine, Covishield. Global pharmaceutical

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giant Astra Zenka for the first

12:23

time has admitted that its vaccine

12:25

against COVID-19 could

12:27

cause low platelet counts and formation of

12:29

blood clots in very rare cases. The

12:32

pharmaceutical company is being sued in

12:34

a class action over claims that

12:37

its vaccine against COVID-19 developed with

12:39

the University of Oxford caused death

12:41

and serious injury, including TTS, thrombosis

12:45

and thrombocytopenia syndrome, which causes people

12:47

to have blood clots and low

12:49

blood platelet count. Astra

12:52

Zenka's vaccine formula was licensed to

12:54

Pune-based vaccine maker, Serham Institute of

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India, during the COVID-19 pandemic for

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the manufacture of Covishield. More

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than 174 crore doses

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of Covishield have been administered in

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India. The UK-based media

13:07

organisation The Telegraph reported that in

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all 51 cases have

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been lodged in the High Court in

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the UK with victims and grieving relatives

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seeking damages estimated to be worth up

13:18

to 100 million pounds.

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A range of symptoms associated with

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TTS include breathlessness pain in the

13:25

chest or limbs, pain head size

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red spots or bruising of skin in

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the area beyond the injection site,

13:32

headaches, numbness in body parts etc.

13:34

TTS could mean a restriction in

13:36

the blood flow due to clotting.

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Before the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled

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out in India, the Indian government

13:43

had issued a fact sheet in

13:45

January 2021 in which it specifically

13:47

said that Covishield, the Indian variant

13:49

of Astra Zenka's vaccine, should be

13:51

given with caution to individuals with

13:54

thrombocytopenia that is a condition of

13:56

low plebiscones. The

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vaccines that we're giving to Indians. Then.

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In March, Twenty Twenty One utopian. Some

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sees including France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and

14:07

then moths temporarily pause the use of

14:09

As Southern Cause vaccines after a few

14:11

cases of blood clotting were reported the

14:14

following month. The World as organization said

14:16

that Bts has been reported in some

14:18

cases of the vaccinations with will be

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sealed and legs every up which is

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the other thing meme of as says

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and Cause Vaccine. However w it to

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had added these are latest available data.

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The risk of Pts is that Sylvia.

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Ankle the seals that seems appears to

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be very low. Data from the Uk

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suggests that the risk is approximately focuses

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four million adults. Meanwhile. He

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made twenty twenty one. The Indian government

14:43

said that twenty six potential someone bilic

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events or formation of thoughts in blood

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vessels had been reported. Since core we

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see that began to be administered the

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union has been a C had found

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this possibility as miscues and said that

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will be sealed. Continues to has

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a decimate positive benefit risk

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profile. This. Tremendous potential to prevent

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infections and reduce deaths due to

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