{"id":88903,"date":"2019-03-15T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:51:26","slug":"23-opposition-parties-move-court-on-evms-and-vvpat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/23-opposition-parties-move-court-on-evms-and-vvpat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Opposition parties move court on EVMs and VVPAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Opposition parties have moved to the Supreme\nCourt demanding the random verification of at least 50% Electronic Voting\nMachines (EVM) using Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in every\nAssembly segment or constituency.<\/li><li>Opposition parties have argued that this would\nincrease voter confidence and make the electoral process more transparent. They\nhave contended that free and fair elections is a part of the basic structure of\nthe Indian Constitution. The Supreme Court has held that democracy is one of\nthe inalienable basic features of the Constitution of India and forms part of\nits basic structure. Free and fair elections are a central feature of democracy.<\/li><li>In 2013, the Supreme Court in Subramanian Swami Case,\nhad held that VVPAT for EVMs was an indispensable requirement of free and fair\nelections. The SC had directed the Election Commission to introduce VVPAT in\nEVMs in gradual stages or geographical-wise in the 2014 general elections.<\/li><li>Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is an\nindependent system attached to an EVM that allows the voters to verify that\ntheir votes are cast as intended. At present, VVPAT slips in one randomly\nchosen polling station per constituency are tallied with EVM results.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties have moved to the Supreme Court demanding the random verification of at least 50% Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) using Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in every Assembly segment or constituency. Opposition parties have argued that this would increase voter confidence and make the electoral process more transparent. They have contended that free&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/23-opposition-parties-move-court-on-evms-and-vvpat-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">23 Opposition parties move court on EVMs and VVPAT<\/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":[1760],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-88903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-vvpat","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704648504},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88903","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=88903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}