Supreme
Court notice to poll panel on EVMs
Monday July 25, 2011 08:11:19 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Monday directed the Election Commission to
decide on a petition seeking provisions for instant verification
of votes cast through electronic voting machines (EVMs).
An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S.
Panicker Radhakrishnan, and Justice Swatanter Kumar asked the
commission to decide within three months on the petition by Nagpur-based
Shiv Sena activist Rajindra Satyanarayan Gilda.
Gilda is seeking a provision whereby a device attached to the EVMs
issues an acknowledgement slip to the voters, or a screen displays
the vote. However, the acknowledgement slip can not be carried out
of the polling booth and has to be deposited in a box.
The petitioner said that voting through EVMs was not in consonance
with constitutional provisions as it did not provide any facility
to verify the vote given by the voter.
The apex court issued the notice after Gilda's counsel Shekhar
Naphade told the court that he had sent a legal
notice-cum-representation to the Election Commission Dec 14, 2010.
This notice was sent by the commission to the technical experts
committee and thereafter there was no word from it.
The court was told that another notice was sent to the commission
in March before elections were held in four states, but it went
unanswered.
In the representation, Naphade told the court that it was
contended that "right to vote means and includes right to know or
right to verify" whether a vote cast in favour of a candidate has
actually gone to him or not.
Seeking direction to the commission to make necessary
modifications in the EVMs to facilitate the verification of vote
caste in favour of a particular party or candidate, Gilda said
that under the existing EVM system there was no way a vote could
be verified.
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