Presenting the grammar of Science, ISI submits report on sample size of VVPAT abide the elections..!

New Delhi, March 23: Presenting the report on the sample size of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slip counting to the CEC Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra, the Indian Statistical Institute recalled the varying demands for enhanced percentage of VVPAT slip count during elections in the country.

 

The Commission had engaged the Indian Statistical Institute to systematically analyse and scientifically examine the issue of VVPAT Slip verification with electronic count of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), read the statement.

This is after the Expert Committee aligned had wide ranging consultations with other experts in the field of statistics and examined suggestions received from other groups. The same Expert Committee has submitted its Report titled 'Random Sampling for Testing of EVMs via VVPAT Slip Verification' to the Commission yesterday.

ISI is one of the most prominent and reputed national institution devoted to research, teaching and application of statistics and sampling methodology in the country. “Keeping in view their domain expertise and subject specialization, the Commission decided to engage the Institute in arriving at mathematically sound, statistically robust and practically cogent solutions to the issue of a number or percentage of VVPAT slip counts to done during the elections”, it added further.