{"id":89600,"date":"2019-04-15T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:01","slug":"opposition-parties-to-approach-sc-again-to-demand-verification-of-50-votes-by-vvpats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/opposition-parties-to-approach-sc-again-to-demand-verification-of-50-votes-by-vvpats\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition parties to approach SC again to demand verification of 50% votes by VVPATs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Recently, the opposition parties had held a\nmeeting to discuss the issue of EVM malfunctioning that cropped up during the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\nphase of Lok Sabha elections. They have further decided to approach the Supreme\nCourt again to demand that at least 50% of paper trails be verified with EVMs.<\/li><li>Recently, the Supreme Court had directed the\nElection Commission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to\nfive polling booths per assembly segment of a parliamentary constituency or\nAssembly consistency, from one at present.<\/li><li>The court had 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>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. It helps to detect any possible election\nfraud or malfunction of EVMs.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the opposition parties had held a meeting to discuss the issue of EVM malfunctioning that cropped up during the 1st phase of Lok Sabha elections. They have further decided to approach the Supreme Court again to demand that at least 50% of paper trails be verified with EVMs. Recently, the Supreme Court had directed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/opposition-parties-to-approach-sc-again-to-demand-verification-of-50-votes-by-vvpats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opposition parties to approach SC again to demand verification of 50% votes by VVPATs<\/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-89600","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":1704926458},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600","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=89600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}