Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 2]

Another counsel (for petitioners): Engineers have indirect access to machines, they are not accountable to Election Commission

Hegde: Counting is immediate. Audit can take time. There should be a separate audit which would then add greater credibility to counting process. Please consider what safeguards can be put in today

Hegde: between 14 and 18 rounds of counting, all votes are counted electronically. Process gets over by 2 PM. Each table has about 3 electoral officers. You have 250 people to quickly count through VVPATs. Counting can't take 13 days

Sr Adv Sanjay Hegde (for petitioners): 12 lac slips to be counted...how is counting done even today? it is done parallelly...on each legislative assembly

AoR Prashant Bhushan: One possible solution is if they can't change glass at this stage, at least the light should remain on at all times so I can see the slip cutting and falling. No privacy will be compromised.

Adv Pasha: Voter should be allowed to take VVPAT slip and deposit in ballot box

J Khanna: Won't it affect voter's privacy?

Pasha: Voter privacy cannot be used to defeat voter's rights

Adv Pasha: What has not been argued on this side is the rights' contest...all the rights that arise in this case I have pointed out...in electoral bonds matter, my Lords laid down balancing standard

J Khanna: can you list 4 prongs of proportionality?

Adv Nizam Pasha (for petitioners): I just want to respond to a Court query through my written submissions

J Khanna: I hope you understand the practical results of what you are seeking

Hearing begins