{"id":34829,"date":"2018-10-31T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34829"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:59:22","slug":"back-to-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/back-to-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to paper:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/back-to-paper\/article19782415.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to paper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Election Commission\u2019s decision to use the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the news all about?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time, VVPAT will be used on a State-wide basis in Gujarat<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may silence the critics that questioned the safety and accuracy of EVMs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the unique feature of Electronic Voting Machines currently being used?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EC of India uses a stand-alone, non-networked machine that runs on a single programmed microchip <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Should VVPAT be encouraged? <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VVPAT is a costly process and should not be encouraged<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What should be the duty of the political parties?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They should meaningfully engage with the election commission for a solution instead of creating hue and cry<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to paper:\u00a0 Context: The Election Commission\u2019s decision to use the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) What is the news all about? For the first time, VVPAT will be used on a State-wide basis in Gujarat It may silence the critics that questioned the safety and accuracy of EVMs What is the unique feature&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/back-to-paper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to paper:\u00a0<\/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-34829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704801718},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829","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=34829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}