{"id":312035,"date":"2019-05-07T06:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312035"},"modified":"2019-05-07T06:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T06:24:46","slug":"sc-dismisses-oppositions-plea-seeking-50-vvpat-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-dismisses-oppositions-plea-seeking-50-vvpat-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses Opposition\u2019s plea seeking 50% VVPAT verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the review petition filed by twenty-one Opposition parties seeking a direction to increase VVPAT verification from five to at least 50% of EVMs during counting of votes in the general elections 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will not review our order.\u201d the top court said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court had on April 8 directed the Election Commission (EC) to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs in five polling booths per assembly segment from one booth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Opposition leaders led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who had earlier demanded 50 per cent random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs have urged the apex court to review its order, saying the &#8220;increase from 1 to 5 is not a reasonable number and does not lead to satisfaction desired by this court&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the review petition filed by twenty-one Opposition parties seeking a direction to increase VVPAT verification from five to at least 50% of EVMs during counting of votes in the general elections 2019. \u201cWe will not review our order.\u201d the top court said. The top court had on April 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312037,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312035\/revisions\/312037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}