{"id":40021,"date":"2019-01-08T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40021"},"modified":"2019-01-08T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:28:21","slug":"sc-notice-to-ec-on-vvpat-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-notice-to-ec-on-vvpat-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"SC notice to EC on VVPAT verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sc-notice-to-ec-on-vvpat-verification\/article25936114.ece\"><strong>SC notice to EC on VVPAT verification<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Election Commission (EC) on increasing the tallying count and cross-verify the VVPAT in at least 30% randomly chosen polling stations within each Assembly segment\/constituency.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to the petition filed, the fraction of polling stations chosen for random cross-verification has been very low (less than 1% of polling stations in each constituency). The petitioners argue that this is arbitrary, irrational, unreasonable and in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>VVPATs:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is a method that provides feedback to voters.<\/li>\n<li>It is an independent verification printer machine and is attached to electronic voting machines. It allows voters to verify if their vote has gone to the intended candidate.<\/li>\n<li>In 2013, the SC had asked the Election Commission to introduce paper trails in EVMs o that the voter can satisfy himself that his vote was accurately recorded.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC notice to EC on VVPAT verification News The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Election Commission (EC) on increasing the tallying count and cross-verify the VVPAT in at least 30% randomly chosen polling stations within each Assembly segment\/constituency. Important Facts According to the petition filed, the fraction of polling stations chosen for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-notice-to-ec-on-vvpat-verification\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC notice to EC on VVPAT verification<\/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-40021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704887157},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40021","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=40021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}