{"id":29084,"date":"2018-10-24T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29084"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:29:15","slug":"vvpat-glitches-pose-a-new-headache-for-poll-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vvpat-glitches-pose-a-new-headache-for-poll-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"VVPAT glitches pose a new headache for poll panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VVPAT glitches pose a new headache for poll panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In recent by elections, there are\u00a0reports of malfunctioning of EVMs in many booths, especially in Kairana and Bhandra-Gondiya.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Chief Election Officer Uttar Pradesh has admitted that the commission received complaints of malfunctioning of VVPAT machines.<\/li>\n<li>The VVPAT replacement rate due to glitches in the machines was as high as 20.82% (way above the 5% limit seen as acceptable by the EC)) in Kairana, 19.22% in Bhandara-Gondia and 13.16% in Palghar.<\/li>\n<li>Some of reasons which has led to failure of VVPAT include:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronic devices were sensitive to extreme heat.<\/li>\n<li>Fitting of VVPAT machine under direct light.<\/li>\n<li>Mishandled use of VVPAT<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0VVPATs were being used for the first time by polling staff (unlike the EVM itself)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. About VVPAT machine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The VVPAT, or Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail, is an EVM-connected verification printer device.<\/li>\n<li>It allows voters to verify if their vote has indeed gone to the intended candidate by leaving a paper trail of the vote cast.<\/li>\n<li>After the voter casts his or her mandate by pressing a button in the EVM, the VVPAT connected to it prints a slip containing the poll symbol and the name of the candidate.<\/li>\n<li>Slips from a randomly selected polling booth from each constituency are then matched with the EVM tallies during counting to check for the accuracy of the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. EVMs were use in India since 1998 and have been gradually upgraded with security features to avoid any malpractice of voting machine.<\/p>\n<p>6. The VVPATs will bring in accountability and transparency to the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>7. The VVPATs were introduced in the past year and were recently used in the Goa Assembly elections in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VVPAT glitches pose a new headache for poll panel News: In recent by elections, there are\u00a0reports of malfunctioning of EVMs in many booths, especially in Kairana and Bhandra-Gondiya. Important Facts: The Chief Election Officer Uttar Pradesh has admitted that the commission received complaints of malfunctioning of VVPAT machines. The VVPAT replacement rate due to glitches&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vvpat-glitches-pose-a-new-headache-for-poll-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VVPAT glitches pose a new headache for poll panel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704822636},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}