New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday will hear a petition moved by 21 Opposition parties, asking it to pass a directive that electronic voting machines be made tamper-proof.
The parties want mandatory verification of 50% votes by paper trail before announcement of results in the Lok Sabha polls. Andhra Pradesh chief minister and TDP boss Chandrababu Naidu is the lead petitioner in this case. The decision to move the court was taken in the meeting at Sharad Pawar’s residence.
Announcing the election schedule on Sunday, the EC had said that mandatory checking of the EVMs and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail will be done for one polling station in each Lok Sabha constituency.