NEW DELHI: Supreme Courtroom on Monday issued discover to Election Fee on a PIL filed by activist Arun Kumar Agrawal in search of full depend of voter verified paper audit path (VVPAT) paper slips in elections versus the present apply of verification of solely 5 randomly chosen digital voting machines (EVMs) in every meeting phase of a parliamentary constitutency.Citing that related petitions are pending and into consideration of the apex court docket, a bench headed by Justice B R Gavai tagged Agrawal’s plea with them.The petitioner stated that if simultaneous verification is finished and extra officers are deployed for counting, the entire VVPAT verification may be performed in matter of 5-6 hours. The petition additional argued that whereas govt has spent practically Rs 5,000 crores on buy of practically 24 lakh VVPATs, presently slips of solely about 20,000 VVPATs are verified. On condition that questions are being raised by specialists on VVPATs and EVMs and numerous discrepancies have been reported, it’s crucial that each one VVPATs slips are counted and the voter is given a chance to confirm that his vote as forged within the poll can also be counted by permitting him to bodily drop his/her VVPAT slip on the poll field, it argued. tnn
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