The Supreme Court has scheduled a listening to for April 16 to take into account a collection of petitions requesting cross-verification of votes forged with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips. VVPAT serves as an unbiased vote verification system, permitting voters to affirm if their vote was recorded precisely. It generates a paper slip seen to the voter, saved sealed for potential dispute decision.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta deferred petitions associated to Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) to subsequent Tuesday, amid preparations for the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls commencing on April 19.
The courtroom had earlier sought responses from the Election Commission and the Center on pleas advocating for complete VVPAT counting, difficult the present apply of tallying slips from solely 5 randomly chosen EVMs per meeting phase.
NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) urged the courtroom to guarantee voters can confirm that their votes are precisely recorded, emphasizing the significance of transparency and accountability within the electoral course of.
The plea highlights the necessity for voters to confirm that their votes are “counted as recorded,” stressing that the present process falls wanting guaranteeing full voter verifiability, opposite to earlier courtroom directives.
