The Supreme Court docket has dismissed a petition searching for one hundred pc counting of VVPAT slips in elections, along with counting of Digital Voting Machines (EVMs) by the management unit.
The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar, and Justice KV Viswanathan rejected the Particular Go away Petition (SLP) filed by Hans Raj Jain on the grounds that it has already examined these points.
Showing in individual, Jain submitted that he had given a illustration earlier than the Election Fee of India, however the ECI was but to reply.
Jain then filed a writ petition earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket searching for instructions to the ECI to make use of an applicable prototype of Voter Verified Paper Audit Path (VVPAT) system sooner or later, wherein the printer was stored open and the printed poll, which received reduce and fell out of the printer, was topic to verification by the voter, earlier than offering the identical to a presiding officer earlier than leaving the polling station.
Jain additional sought instructions to the ECI to permit a illustration submitted by him on April 15, 2024.
He mentioned the Excessive Court docket rejected his plea, after which he moved the Apex Court docket. Jain additional contended that the petition pertained to the problem of counting.
The Bench, nonetheless, dismissed the SLP.
Earlier, the Apex Court docket had rejected comparable pleas searching for one hundred pc cross-verification of EVM knowledge with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Path (VVPAT) information, observing that EVMs have been easy, safe, and user-friendly.
