Supreme Court rejects all pleas for 100% EVM-VVPAT verification
Guwahati, April 26 -- In a major blow to all the petitioners, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and said "blindly distrusting" any aspect of the system can breed unwarranted scepticism.
Maintaining that "democracy is all about striving to build harmony and trust between all institutions", a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta delivered two concurring verdicts and dismissed all the pleas in the matter, including those seeking to go back to ballot papers in elections.
The Apex court issued two directives.
Pronouncing his verdict, Justice Khanna directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to seal and s...
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