Supreme Court has rejected a review petition by 21 Opposition parties seeking paper slip counts on 50 per cent of VVPAT devices
New Delhi: The plan to tally paper slips with the votes registered on 20,625 of the 10.35 lakh electronic machines deployed nationwide cannot guarantee the integrity of the electoral process against targeted tampering or machine malfunction, specialists have said.
They have added that different sizes of random counts in different constituencies would have been a more reliable option. A researcher who was part of a panel enlisted by the Election Commission has agreed with these specialists and told The Telegraph that his answer would have been different had the poll panel reframed its question.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected a review petition by 21 Opposition parties seeking paper slip counts on 50 per cent of voter verification paper audit trail (VVPAT) devices paired with EVMs.
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