The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking full cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta reserved its verdict after listening to the response of Election Commission on the pleas.
The petitioners have additionally sought reversal of the ballot panel’s 2017 determination to switch the clear glass on VVPAT machines with an opaque glass via which a voter can see the slip solely when the sunshine is on for seven seconds.
Senior advocate Maninder Singh, showing for the Election Commission, defined the method of how an EVM capabilities. Advocate Prashant Bhushan and senior advocate Gopal Sankararanarayanan appeared for the petitioners. Other legal professionals represented the intervenors.
On April 16, the highest court docket had deprecated criticism of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and requires reverting to poll papers, saying the electoral course of in India is a “humongous task” and makes an attempt shouldn’t be made to “bring down the system”.
