New Delhi:
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition towards a petition for the Election Commission of India (ECI) that in addition to electronic count by the control unit of electronic voting machines (EVMs), besides electronic counting should be 100 percent manual count of VVPAT slips.
A bench of CJI Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar and KV Vishwanathan refused to intervene in the Delhi High Court’s decision, rejecting the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the first appellant.
During the hearing, a bench led by CJI Khanna commented that it would not repeatedly investigate the same issue.
Eventually, the apex court dismissed the special holiday petition filed by the appellant-pill litigant.
In April 2024, the Supreme Court rejected a group of petitions seeking compulsory cross-convenience of votes cast in EVMs with VVPAT slippers.
A bench of Justice Sanjeev Khanna (now CJI) and Dipankar Dutta said that when he acknowledged the fundamental rights of the voters that his vote has been recorded accurately and counted, he cannot be equal to the right to count 100 percent of the VVPAT slip, which is of physical access to VVPAT slips.
The appellant had shifted a PIL before the Delhi High Court, seeking direction to the ECI to use the proper prototype of the VVPAT system in the future, in which the printer is kept open and the printed ballot, which is cut off from the printer and falls from the verification, is subject to the voter, before the voter, before providing a victim officer before leaving a victim officer.
To entertain the case, Delhi HC, in its judgment passed on August 12 last year, said that the issue raised in the pilot was no longer integrated in view of the verdict by the apex court.
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