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 9:51 AM GMT
J Khanna: so when does candidate get opportunity? One when software is uploaded, then on polling day a mock poll and at the stage of counting is there any exercise to ensure the data in each machine is available to the candidate?
ECI: yes
J Khanna: also the data regarding the votes polled and captured
ECI: Yes
- 16 April 2024 9:45 AM GMT
J Khanna: each unit is also separately sealed and then stored. Is there a possibility to ascertain later whether the controlling unit was attached to the other units?
ECI: by serial number
J Khanna: but not possible electronically. Is there any port attached? How is software uploaded?
- 16 April 2024 9:44 AM GMT
J Khanna: the controlling unit is with the polling officer. The polling unit can take 1000 votes. After every 1000 votes the unit is changed.
So they don’t need to be changed unless there is a malfunction but they are stored together and after the counting they are also kept together?
And then the candidates representatives also sign off?
- 16 April 2024 9:41 AM GMT
J Khanna: Mr Singh there is not need to be apprehensive, we have not said anything. What is the factual position? And can you keep the units for future inspection?
Singh: the counter affidavit takes into account that the use of the machine and what happens after the vote is cast
- 16 April 2024 9:39 AM GMT
J Khanna: in the lunch break we thought whether after the voting is done, there must be storage of each machine, even after the counting is done, can those machines be kept for a technical evaluation or inspection?
Singh: if a machine has to packed, the political representative signs off on it