Plea For 100% VVPAT Verification Of EVM Votes : Live Updates From Supreme Court
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16 April 2024 5:50 AM GMT
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- 16 April 2024 10:06 AM GMT
Sankarayanarayn: this is the shortest possible way to give confidence to the voter with the elections looming.
We have given a demonstration.
From the 2019 elections, the Quint saw the data on the ECs website to go statewise and this data was pulled from the website later.
Voter turnout data vs votes counted. There were discrepancies in 373 constituencies. There was a surplus of votes counted.
- 16 April 2024 10:00 AM GMT
ECI: once poll is closed, only then we can
J Khanna: if polling is closed at 4pm, and till then 1000 votes were cast, so then the officer closes the polling. Will he not have access to the data? It is possible?
ECI: candidates representative will not allow
J Khanna: otherwise he can. So there is not intervention to the data stored in the machine
- 16 April 2024 9:58 AM GMT
J Khanna: is the data uploaded? No? It remains with the machine itself? How do you count the votes?
You look at each VVPAT unit display
Can’t the polling officer also gave access to it? When the polling takes place?
ECI: it is not possible, only after the poll is closed we can
- 16 April 2024 9:56 AM GMT
J Khanna: tell us where the candidates get to interact with the machines and how they are kept to prevent misuse or abuse?
Bhushan: if there is a malicious program put based on a timer, it may function properly till the polling day, and malfunction only during the voting hours between 10am-4pm