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SC seeks poll panel response on vote machines
with print
Wednesday April 10, 2013 09:15:09 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Election Commission to file an
affidavit on steps taken for introducing electronic voting
machines (EVMs) with a facility that records in print each vote
that is cast.
The facility has EVMs coupled with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit
Trail System (EVM with VVPAT) for recording in print the vote cast
by the voter through EVM.
The apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan
Gogoi asked the commission's senior counsel Ashok Desai to file an
affidavit giving details of what had been done for the
introduction of EVMs with VVPAT facility.
The court asked Desai that the copy of the affidavit be served on
petitioner Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy and the
government.
In the EVM with VVPAT, the printer is completely sealed and
inaccessible to the voter. It has a window on its front side that
would show the vote exercised by the voter for him to verify.
Thereafter, the printed paper gets cut from a roll and
automatically falls into a sealed box. The EVM with VVPAT has been
produced by the Bharat Electronics Limited and Electronics
Corporation of India Limited.
The court noted that though the government was a party to the
proceedings, none of its counsel was representing it in the
proceedings.
Desai told the court that the field trials of the machines had
been completed and only some fine tuning was left to be done.
He told the court that the EVMS attached with VVPAT system would
be demonstrated at an all-party meeting intended to be called
after the Karnataka assembly elections next month.
The court was told that the Election Commission would require 13
lakh voting machines with printers and this would cost the
exchequer Rs.1,690 crore.
Swamy moved court contending that the recording of the votes in
print was necessary as the EVMs were not tamper-proof.
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