All future elections will be held with voting machines that have a paper trail attached, the Election Commission said on Friday amid a storm of allegations that poll results were manipulated by faulty devices. The Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system records the candidate and symbol a person voted for but the voter cannot take the receipt home. Zaidi said the commission will consider the demand from political parties to allow counting of some percentage of VVPAT slips in addition to the usual counting process to instill confidence among voters and political parties. BJP ally Shiva Sena, however was among the few that stuck to the demand to revert to paper ballots. Some of the parties such as the JDU and CPI reversed their demand to switch to paper ballots.

Source: Hindustan Times May 12, 2017 12:28 UTC