‘Terrible disappointment’: TMC MP as Supreme Court rejects plea to revert to paper ballot voting
‘Vague & baseless…’: SC rejects pleas for 100% EVM-VVPAT verification Bhushan on the X platform added, "We had asked the SC to either: Go back to paper ballots, or Give VVPAT slip to the voter to put in a ballot box & then count VVPAT slips, or keep the light on in the VVPAT machine & count all the slips. Today only 2% of VVPAT slips are matched with EVM. SC today rejected our demands".
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta delivered two concurring verdicts and dismissed all the pleas in the matter. Supreme Court on EVM-VVPAT cross-verification: What judges said in the verdict? The top court issued two directives. One is to seal and store units used to load symbols for 45 days after the symbols have been loaded into electronic voting machines in strong rooms.
No 100% verification of EVM-VVPATs, says SC: 'Blindly distrusting poll process…’ Second, it allowed engineers of the EVM manufacturers to verify the microcontroller of the machines after the declaration of the results at the request of candidates who stood second and third. The request for the verification needs to be made within seven days of the declaration of the results after payment of fees, the court said. "If EVM is found tampered during verification, fees paid by the candidates will be refunded," it added.
An EVM comprises three units -- ballot unit, control unit, and the VVPAT. All three are embedded with microcontrollers which have a burnt memory from the manufacturer. Currently, VVPATs are used in five booths per assembly constituency.
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