New Delhi, March 11 -- A Biju Janata Dal delegation on Tuesday went to the Election Commission and demanded that the Commission conduct a periodic "process audit" of the entire election process by independent auditors or the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

In its letter to the electoral body, the BJD also demanded to make such report public as is being done in several countries where democratic elections are held.

"We had mentioned in our earlier Memorandum that discrepancies indicated therein were unusual and showed that there was either machine (EVM) error or manual error (during data entry) or process error or a combination of all these. Since doubts have been raised in the minds of voters about conduct of free and fair electi...