{"id":27167,"date":"2018-10-23T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27167"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:42:00","slug":"vvpat-to-be-used-in-gujarat-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vvpat-to-be-used-in-gujarat-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"VVPAT to be used in Gujarat polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/vvpat-to-be-used-in-gujarat-polls\/article19772918.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VVPAT to be used in Gujarat polls<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: (The Hindu) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Election Commission of India will use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) gadgets with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in upcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why is it important?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time an entire assembly poll will be conducted using EVMs equipped with VVPAT<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VVPAT machines will allow voters to verify if their vote has gone to the intended candidate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This would ensure transparency in the voting process<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The machine is being put to use in Gujarat following a petition<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VVPAT to be used in Gujarat polls: (The Hindu) Context: Use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) What is the news? The Election Commission of India will use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) gadgets with Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in upcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat. Why is it important? This is the first&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vvpat-to-be-used-in-gujarat-polls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VVPAT to be used in Gujarat polls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704615313},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}