{"id":89582,"date":"2019-04-09T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T10:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2019-04-09T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T10:52:55","slug":"increase-random-checking-of-vvpat-slips-to-five-per-assembly-segment-sc-directs-election-commission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/increase-random-checking-of-vvpat-slips-to-five-per-assembly-segment-sc-directs-election-commission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase random checking of VVPAT slips to five per Assembly segment, SC directs Election Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Supreme Court has directed the Election\nCommission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to five polling\nbooths per assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency or Assembly consistency,\nfrom one at present. 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.<\/li><li>The Court has observed that the move would\nensure greater degree of accuracy and increase satisfaction in the election\nprocess of not just the political parties but of the entire electorate.<\/li><li>The SC has not agreed to the demand of 21\nOpposition political parties for counting of at least 50% of VVPAT slips with\nEVMs in every assembly segment.<\/li><li>In opposition to the political parties\u2019 demand,\nthe EC had argued that increasing VVPAT verification to 50% would delay Lok\nSabha election results by nearly 6days. Further, EC had said that increasing VVPAT\nslip counting would require additional election officials, extensive training\nand capacity building of officials in the field and this would put a strain on\nEC\u2019s resources. <\/li><li>The Election Commission has assured its\nconfidence on EVM-VVPATs based on a) secure designs of the systems, b)\nelaborate procedural safeguards adopted for their usage and c) the fact that\nthere have been zero errors in sample verifications till date. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has directed the Election Commission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to five polling booths per assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency or Assembly consistency, from one at present. Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is an independent system attached to an EVM that allows the voters to verify&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/increase-random-checking-of-vvpat-slips-to-five-per-assembly-segment-sc-directs-election-commission-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Increase random checking of VVPAT slips to five per Assembly segment, SC directs Election Commission<\/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":[1234],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-89582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-vvpat","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704949050},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89582","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=89582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}