The review petition was filed after the Supreme Court on April 8 directed the ECI to increase physical counting of VVPAT slips to 5 random EVMs in each constituency. Earlier, only VVPAT slips from one EVM in every Assembly segment or constituency was subjected to physical verification. We have spent Rs 9000 crore on VVPAT then why can't you count it and make it more transparent," Naidu told reporters. We demand that if any discrepancy or mismatch is found in any one of the five VVPATs-EVMs that are required to be matched in an Assembly segment then counting of all VVPATs should be done. We will ask Election Commission to revise its guidelines," said Naidu.

Source: dna May 07, 2019 10:07 UTC