Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on April 26 rejected the pleas for complete EVM-VVPAT verification. In its judgement, the top court directed that the Symbol Loading Units be sealed and secured.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta passed the order.
Additionally, the SC directed that there will be an option for candidates to get the microcontroller program of EVMs to be checked by a team of engineers after the declaration of results.
Earlier, the Bench had reserved its judgement after they received answers from the Election Commission of India (ECI) to technical queries it had asked for earlier in the day.
In the previous hearing, the SC had raised several “technical questions” and directed the Election Commission to respond to queries concerning the cross-verification of votes cast in electronic voting machines (EVMs) with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).
