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- The Supreme Court has increased Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification to five random Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in each Assembly constituency.
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A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi increased the number of EVM-VVPATs subjected to physical verification in order to “ensure the greatest degree of accuracy, satisfaction in election process.”
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Apex court observed that not only political parties but the poor and the illiterate should be satisfied.
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Earlier, under the ECI guideline 16.6, only the VVPAT slips from one EVM in every Assembly segment/constituency was subjected to physical verification.
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The Supreme Court’s decision is far short of what 21 Opposition parties wanted: VVPAT verification in 50% or 125 polling booths in each constituency.
Source
The hindu.