Plea For 100% VVPAT Verification Of EVM Votes : Live Updates From Supreme Court

J Khanna: suppose each booth has three polling stations inside, they will have three machines?

Singh: yes

J Khanna; and you store all three together? Just check this up

Sankaranarayanan: 17.4 lakh VVPAT machines are being used. This is what the ECI told the PTI.

J Khanna: they are getting 8.92 lakh more machines

Mr Singh what is this? There are three units to the VVPAT. Each has three? All work in tandem and you buy all three together?

Adv Maninder Singh for ECI: that may not be necessary 

Sankrayananan: govt bought 17 lakh VVPATs. For every voting machine there is a VVPAT machine.

2.71 lakh machines have been replaced in 7 years, because tech has changed. It’s not perfect. There could be errors in these machines.

Sankarayanarayan: the physical contact with the vote is gone. There is no satisfaction of the vote being cast.

It seems like magic to many of the voters who don’t understand how this tech works.

Shankaranarayana: voters have that particular right. In this case the RTI is not being exercised for a candidate but regarding what I have exercised.

Pls look at a small man in a village. They press a button and see a paper falling into a box.

Multitudes of people don’t have an idea on what happened.

Sr Adv Gopal Sankaranarayanan: I adopt everything that Mr Bhushan says.

We are not saying that there is any malice. Only issue is that the confidence of the voter in the vote he has cast.

Bhushan: the German constitutional court made an emphatic conclusion that these are not reliable.

It said that the interest of protection of the status quo is based on the trust of the people in the constitutionality.

The fact that they can be manipulated is enough to say they can’t be trusted

Bhushan: the recommendations of the citizens commissions are by the world’s best experts in this domain.

Bhushan: the companies who run these machines ECIL and Bharat Electronics have BJP people as their directors.

Bhushan: in case two consecutive votes are cast for the same party, the VVPAT can be manipulated so that one vote goes to one party and another goes to other party.

They are not showing the source code of the EVM citing IP concerns and that is causing even more trouble.