SC Verdict Today On Pleas Seeking 100% EVM-VVPAT Vote Verification | India News

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to declare its verdict on Wednesday concerning a number of petitions requesting full cross-verification of votes solid by way of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) utilizing the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). The VVPAT serves as an autonomous technique for voters to confirm if their votes have been precisely recorded. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will pronounce the particular directions on the plea wherein order was reserved by the apex court docket on April 18. 

During the listening to the highest court docket identified the significance of voter’s belief within the electoral system and their satisfaction. The SC informed petitioners looking for course to return to utilizing poll papers, to not suspect the efficacy of EVMs and recognize if the Election Commission does good work.  

During the almost two-day listening to, the bench mentioned with senior Deputy Election Commissioner Nitesh Kumar Vyas for about an hour to know the operation of EVMs. Senior advocate Maninder Singh, representing the Election Commission, asserted that EVMs are standalone gadgets invulnerable to tampering, though he acknowledged the potential for human error. 

On April 16, the SC depreciated the criticism of EVMs and requires going again 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”, reported PTI. 

The NGO ‘Association for Democratic Reforms’ (ADR) sought the court docket to vary a call made by the election fee in 2017. This choice was about changing see-through glass on voting machines with opaque glass. With the brand new glass, a voter can solely see their vote slip when a lightweight is on for seven seconds. 

The ADR has requested that the variety of votes recorded by EVMs matches the votes which were reliably recorded as solid. They additionally need to be certain that voters can verify by way of the VVPAT slip that their vote, as seen on the paper slip, has been counted as recorded. 

At current, VVPAT slips from 5 randomly chosen EVMs in every Assembly phase endure verification.