Saturday, March 30th, 2019
Checking 50% of VVPATs would delay results by up to six days, EC tells Supreme Court
The Election Commission told the Supreme Court on Friday, 29 March, that a petition by 21 opposition leaders gave no valid reason to change the way paper trail slips are verified, and warned that their proposal could hold up the Lok Sabha results by as much as six days. The petition and the EC’s reply The petitioners, whose group was headed by N Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, wanted VVPAT slips from at least 50 percent of voting machines in every Assembly segment to be counted atRead More