Author: Prof Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar

Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons For over 20 years now, all Parliament and State Assembly elections in India are being conducted using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). From time to time, there have been questions raised on the trustworthiness of EVMs.  For the 2019 Parliamentary elections, the VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) system was incorporated in the polling process on the basis of Supreme Court (SC) directions. Based on commitments made by the Election Commission (EC) to the SC, on the day of counting, from each of the 4025 assembly segments of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, five booths were chosen…