Don’t Mistrust EVM! SC dismisses another PIL on VVPAT Review
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New Delhi, May 21: The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking 100 % matching of Voter Variable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the counting of votes for Lok Sabha elections 2019.
The PIL was filed by a Chennai based group of technocrats on Thursday. A vacation bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, had already dealt with the matter and passed an order. “it cannot override the Chief Justice’s order,’’ the bench said.
The Supreme Court had earlier this month dismissed a review plea filed by 21 Opposition leaders seeking that random matching be increased to 50%. Last month, the court had directed the Election Commission to increase the random matching from one to five polling booths per assembly segment, saying it would provide greater satisfaction not just to political parties but also to the entire electorate.
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