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22 Opposition leaders meet EC, demand 100% VVPAT checks in case of mismatch

The Opposition leaders also requested that the verification of VVPAT slips of five randomly identified polling stations per Assembly constituency should be done before the counting of votes and not after the completion of last round.

3 min readNew DelhiMay 21, 2019 07:06 PM IST First published on: May 21, 2019 at 04:58 PM IST

Leaders of 22 Opposition parties met the Election Commission. (ANI)

Leaders from 22 Opposition parties submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission seeking 100 per cent matching of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with EVMs of all polling booths of an assembly segment in case of a discrepancy.

In the meeting with the Election Commission, that lasted about an hour, the Opposition leaders also requested that the verification of VVPAT slips of five randomly identified polling stations per Assembly constituency should be done before the counting of votes and not after the completion of last round, according to ANI.

“We told the EC that the VVPAT machines should be counted first and if there is any discrepancy, then all of them in that segment should be counted,” Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters here after meeting EC officials.