Nueva Delhi: In the midst of the continuous criticism of electronic voting machines by the opposition parties, the Supreme Court on Tuesday requested the Electoral Commission to explain whether the SC SC SC SC SC scrupulously followed for the verification of the authenticity of the authenticity of EVM by engineers after the completion of the surveys.
Asking the Electoral Commission not to eliminate the EVMS data in question, a bank from the President of the Supreme Court Sanjiv Khanna and Judge Dipankar Datta sought an affidavit of the CE for March 3 as a candidate for the Sarv Mitter Congress, which lost before the candidate of INLD Arjun Chautala in the Rania Assembly. The constituency of Haryana, complained through the main lawyer Retadatt Kamat that the EC was “reluctant to allow the scrutiny of the burned/microcontroller of EVM” and alleged that an EVM that was taken for the scrutiny showed the empty data.
The same bank in its judgment of April 26, 20024 in the Association of Democratic Reforms had ordered that at the writing request of the candidates in second and third place in an election within seven days after the declaration of results, “Memory Burned/microcontroller in 5% of the EVMS, that is, the control unit, the voting unit and the VVPPP, according to the segment of the constituency/assembly of the assembly of a parliamentary constituency, will be verified and verified by the equipment of the equipment Engineers of the EVM manufacturers, after the announcement of the results, for the results, for the results. Any manipulation or modification. “
The SC had also ordered that “the district elections officer, in consultation with the engineers team, will certify the authenticity/intactor of the burned/microcontroller memory after the verification process is carried out. The ECI of the cost or real expenses for said verification will be notified by the ECI, and the candidate who makes said request will pay these expenses. “
Kamat said that the SC in his April 2024 had ordered the EC to devise a mechanism to verify and verify the burned memory and the microcontroller of the EVMs, but the EC “has failed to devise an adequate mechanism and, in the In instructions issued contrary, contrary to the SC decision. “
For the EC, the senior lawyer Mannder Singh said that the SC has again and again that faith in the EVM and its work attempts and repelled to take the country back to the days of the electoral ballot, which saw massive rigs and Thine cabins used by politicians.
He said that the CE has scrupulously followed the SC-Down mechanism to prove the authenticity of the EVMs and argued that the other petitioner, the Congress candidate, Karan Singh Dalal, who was defeated from the constituency of the Palwal Assembly, has presented Another request despite removing an identical request. The bank agreed with Singh and refused to entertain Dalal’s request.
Kamat said that when Mitter sought the verification of EVM’s authenticity in nine electoral centers in the constituency of the Rania Assembly, the district electoral officer resorted to a simulated survey on the EVM used for the constituency and prove its burned memory/ microcontroller.
The petitioner sought an address to the CE to establish a policy/ memorandum for the verification and verification of the original/ microcontroller memory of the four components of the EVM (Control Unit, Votation Unit, VVPAT and symbol load unit) in Terms of the terms of the April Unit of 2024 trial.
