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Election result: SC dismisses PIL on 100% matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs

SC dismisses PIL seeking 100 % matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs during vote counting on May 23

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Supreme Court on Tuesday expelled a PIL looking for 100 percent coordinating of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid tallying of votes on May 23 for Lok Sabha surveys.

An excursion seat headed by Justice Arun Mishra would not engage the supplication recorded by a Chennai-based association ‘Tech for All’, saying that a bigger seat headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had just managed the issue and passed a request

“The CJI had managed this issue. For what reason are you bringing chance under the watchful eye of a two-judge get-away seat,” the pinnacle court inquired.

“We can’t abrogate the CJI’s organization… This is jabber. The appeal is accepted. Expelled,” Justice Mishra said.

The peak court had on May 7 rejected a survey supplication recorded by 21 Opposition pioneers driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu looking for that irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs be expanded to 50 percent.

The top court had on April 8 guided the Election Commission to expand arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five surveying corners for each gathering fragment in Lok Sabha surveys, saying it would give more noteworthy fulfillment to ideological groups as well as to the whole electorate.

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Present method of counting VVPAT slips most suitable: EC to Supreme Court

The Election Commission Friday told the Supreme Court that the present method of counting the VVPAT slips is the most suitable.

Elections: The Election Commission Friday told the Supreme Court that the present technique for checking the VVPAT slips is the most appropriate.

The survey board advocated the current arrangement of irregular checking of the VVPAT slips from one surveying stall for each get together section.

The Election Commission, which was asked on March 25 by the peak court to give its view on expanding the quantity of irregular example overviews from one corner for every get together fragment, said in future decisions, it might consider any proposals which result in further improving the holding of surveys in free and reasonable way.

“It is presented that with the approaching decisions issues brought up in the moment petitions are matters that have just been considered, contemplated and dictated by the Election Commission of India and have since finished in embracing the course of direct of the up and coming race in the present way,” the EC said in its affirmation.

It said the writ request recorded by 21 restriction pioneers, driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, does not raise any ground or base for changing the current framework at this point.

The survey board said the present framework which is being received for the inescapable decisions be permitted to be proceeded as “it has been observed to be generally appropriate”.

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