Count VVPATs before EVMs: Opposition parties |
22 Opposition parties turned out in strength before the Election Commission on Wednesday with a list of demands they said were "confidence-building measures". The prime concern is the order of counting of national election votes on Thursday - the parties want the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) machines be considered first. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dismissed a request seeking 100 per cent matching of VVPAT slips with the Voting Machines during counting, calling it "nonsense". After the meeting, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said: "The Supreme Court said five random VVPATs should be counted, but the EC has said that counting will be done first and then VVPATs will be counted. We have said - let them count the five first, so that if there is a problem, we can then count all of them before it is too late." The delegation also flagged the movement of Electronic Voting Machines in five states - videos of which surface this morning -- saying it reinforced their concerns about tampering.
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