My Lords had 50% was not 'viable' at this point of time during the Lok Sabha elections," Mr. Singhvi submitted. Earlier, under the ECI guideline 16.6, only the VVPAT slips from one EVM in every Assembly segment/constituency was subjected to physical verification. The court's decision was, however, a far shot from what the Opposition wanted — VVPAT verification in 50% or 125 polling booths in each constituency. Neither would counting VVPAT slips of five EVMs take any substantial amount of time, it had explained. The ECI had said that a 50% random physical verification of VVPATs would delay the Lok Sabha poll results by six whole days.

Source: The Hindu May 07, 2019 06:10 UTC