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Yesterday the Supreme Court condemned the critics of the electronic voting machine (EVM) and said that conducting elections in the country is a big challenge, in such a situation the system must not be taken back. In his words, the Supreme Court also mentioned the period when the elections were held using ballots and ballot boxes were looted.
That’s what the Supreme Court said
The Supreme Court made this comment while hearing the petition filed by the NGO ADR. In fact, the petition demanded that 100 percent cross-verification of the EVM votes be done using the VVPAT machine so that the voter can know whether he has voted correctly. The petition states that many countries in Europe have also returned to voting in ballot boxes using EVMs. In this regard, the bench of Justice Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Dipankar Dutta said that conducting elections in the country is a big challenge and no European country can do it.
The bench said machines work better than humans
The bench said, ‘You talk about Germany, but what is the population there. Also my home country Bengal has more population than Germany. We need to believe in the electoral process and not drag it back. The bench said that “there are about 98% registered voters in India”. There may be a certain discrepancy in the vote count, which can be corrected. Justice Khanna said that “we have also seen the period when there were no EVMs. There is no need to tell us what happened at that time. According to him, human intervention in any process causes problems and there is a possibility of bias, but the machines are working properly without any human interference. The judge asked lawyer Manander Singh , appearing on behalf of the Election Commission, to give the court all the information related to the EVM, including all the information related to the work of the EVM and its storage. The court also asked the lawyer of the Election Commission, ‘What is the provision for punishment for those guilty of tampering with EVM devices?’
