SC upheld technology, not democracy

Trail he plea in the writ petition and the intervention application on Electronic Voting Machine / Voter Verifiable Paper Audit (EVM/VVPAT) in the Supreme Court was for upholding the "Democracy Principles" that the voting process should have end-to-end verifiability with the voter having the knowledge that her vote was cast as intended, recorded as cast, and counted as recorded.

- M G Devasahayam

This is possible in the ballot-paper system but not possible with an EVM, which is a black box.

With this in view, the Supreme Court was requested to issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order, or direction to the ECI: To cross verify the count in EVMS with votes that have been verifiably 'recorded as cast' by the voters themselves i.e. the VVPATS;

• To ensure that the voters can verify through VVPATS that their vote has been 'counted as recorded';

To uphold the fundamental right of the voters to verify through VVPATS that their vote has been 'recorded as cast' and 'counted as recorded';