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THE Supreme Court on April 26 upheld the electronic voting machine (EVM) system of polling and refused a plea to revive paper ballots. A Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, also refused petitioners’ suggestion to hand over paper slips from Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) units to electors to take a leisurely look before inserting them into the ballot boxes. The Bench further declined the petitioners’ argument to order cross-verification of 100 per cent EVMs and VVPATs. Currently, only five per cent of EVM-VVPAT counts are randomly verified in any given Assembly constituency.