EVM-VVPAT News
The Election Commission said that while eight Maharashtra assembly poll candidates attended the vote verification, two candidates chose not to attend. The ECI said that the EVMs passed the diagnostic tests in all cases.
The Supreme Court is likely to declare its verdict on petitions requesting thorough cross-verification of votes cast through EVMs using the VVPAT.
The official results would take at least four more hours to be declared.
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The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea filed by 21 Opposition parties seeking to verify at least 50 percent of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi refused to review its earlier judgment wherein it directed the Election Commission to increase matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five polling stations per assembly seat.
The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the review petition of 21 opposition parties seeking counter verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) using Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs).
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