Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 2]

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt reserves judgment on petitions seeking 100% EVM-VVPAT verification.

Hegde: we have not taken this adversarial. let this not be a full stop. the country has come to know what has happened so far. larger questions can wait for another day

Sr Adv Santhosh Paul: The anxiety is there has to be faith in the system. Developed countries have abandoned this system

J Datta: Don't think foreign countries are more advanced than India

Bhushan: It is also a question of voter confidence. What's the problem in doing this?

Bhushan: Voter should be able to see the slip cutting and falling in box. Counting of VVPAT slips is not humongous, former CEC Qureshi has pointed out that ballot papers took less than 2 days to count

Bhushan: Now the transparent window, sometime around 2017 when VVPATs were deployed everywhere...design was changed. Easiest thing is to leave the light on

Bhushan: Even if candidates are called, what will they see? malicious programme may be loaded, they won't know

Bhushan: There is some programme fed...slip is seen hanging, you don't see it cut and fall. It is entirely possible that...that is why there is public disquiet

J Khanna: Confine yourself to legal arguments

J Khanna: We are already saying there should have been better communication, information should have been made available

Sankaranarayanan: Let them count the total no. of VVPAT slips, not how much went to whom. So that if there is discrepancy, we know something has been amiss