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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
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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
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now the candidates the last to bear
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the expense of hurting verification of the
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microcontroller birthdays A microcontroller have been found
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to be tampered with, don't have address
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of beauty funded and or the court
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and of course as an option of
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counseling that election and auditing. As on
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for that consistency. And nominee
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does this? Would it bring anything into
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tone for the would us. The.
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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
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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
12:16
in the end, we talk about the COVID-19
12:18
vaccine, Covishield. Global pharmaceutical
12:20
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
12:56
India, during the COVID-19 pandemic for
12:59
the manufacture of Covishield. More
13:01
than 174 crore doses
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of Covishield have been administered in
13:05
India. The UK-based media
13:07
organisation The Telegraph reported that in
13:09
all 51 cases have
13:12
been lodged in the High Court in
13:14
the UK with victims and grieving relatives
13:16
seeking damages estimated to be worth up
13:18
to 100 million pounds.
13:21
A range of symptoms associated with
13:23
TTS include breathlessness pain in the
13:25
chest or limbs, pain head size
13:27
red spots or bruising of skin in
13:29
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.
13:39
Before the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled
13:41
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
14:00
vaccines that we're giving to Indians. Then.
14:02
In March, Twenty Twenty One utopian. Some
14:05
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
14:21
sealed and legs every up which is
14:23
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.
14:30
The risk of Pts is that Sylvia.
14:32
Ankle the seals that seems appears to
14:34
be very low. Data from the Uk
14:37
suggests that the risk is approximately focuses
14:39
four million adults. Meanwhile. He
14:41
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
14:47
vessels had been reported. Since core we
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see that began to be administered the
14:52
union has been a C had found
14:54
this possibility as miscues and said that
14:56
will be sealed. Continues to has
14:58
a decimate positive benefit risk
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profile. This. Tremendous potential to prevent
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