EC rejects the plea of oppositions to count VVPATs

The Opposition request totally the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) slips before the Electronic Voting Machines has been turned somewhere around the Election Commission. The confirmation of EVM cast a ballot with VVPAT slips from five arbitrary polling booths in every assembly section - made obligatory by the Supreme Court - will be done after the tallying of votes and not previously, the Commission said today.

Recently, a designation involving representatives of 22 opposition gatherings had requested that the commission direct the VVPAT check process before the tallying of votes starts. The Commission had requested time to think about the issue. After a gathering gone to by every one of the three Commissioners today, the interest was rejected.

The topic of tallying VVPAT slips rose when the opposition parties battled after the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh that the casting ballot machines were altered to support the BJP.

The Supreme Court, where the issue finally went, asked the Election Commission to expand irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five polling booths for every assembly portion in Lok Sabha polls.

It implies for each Lok Sabha situate, slips from 30 VVPAT machines should be counted with the votes.

In spite of the fact that the Commission contended that coordinating of VVPAT slips would extend the time taken amid checking, the court said it would give more prominent fulfillment to ideological groups and the voters.

The Commission has likewise dismissed the opposition worries about the development of EVMs in states like Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra. As clasps surfaced demonstrating the development of unattended EVMs, the Commission said they are unused machines that are being transported.

As indicated by commission manages, the development of utilized and unused EVMs ought to be concurrent and the machines can't be unattended.