SC asks EC to increase verification of VVPAT slips to 5 per constituency

The opposition leaders said the delay of 5.2 days, as the EC claims, will occur only if the Commission chooses not to increase its present workforce

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission to increase the random matching of paper trail machine slips with EVM results from one to five polling booths in each Assembly segment for the multi-phase Lok Sabha polls starting on Thursday, holding this will bring more “credibility” and “integrity” to the electoral process. 

The increase in random checks of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines is likely to delay the declaration of official results by a couple of hours, election officials said. Such checks will, however, help determine whether votes have been recorded accurately. 

VVPAT machines are being used for the