A last ditch effort by leaders of 21 non-NDA political parties for enhanced number of VVPAT slips to be counted for the Lok Sabha elections failed on Tuesday with the Supreme Court dismissing their plea and retaining its earlier order of slip counts of five EVMs per assembly segment.
The opposition parties were looking to persuade the court to increase slip counts to 50% of EVMs in each assembly segment. The Election Commission had earlier argued that its system of one VVPAT count per assembly segment had worked without any hitches and a larger count would significantly delay declaration of results and also require more staff and fresh training for new protocols.
A last ditch effort by leaders of 21 non-NDA political parties for enhanced number of VVPAT slips to be counted for the Lok Sabha elections failed on Tuesday with the Supreme Court dismissing their plea and retaining its earlier order of slip counts of five EVMs per assembly segment.
The opposition parties were looking to persuade the court to increase slip counts to 50% of EVMs in each assembly segment. The Election Commission had earlier argued that its system of one VVPAT count per assembly segment had worked without any hitches and a larger count would significantly delay declaration of results and also require more staff and fresh training for new protocols.
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