Summary:
As per sources, ECI has 3L VVPAT machines He had also challenged the constitutional validity of this provision because it empowers a returning officer to reject an application for counting of votes by counting printed slips. He had also sought the court's intervention in the provision of the returning officer's discretion on whether to count printed paper slips on demand by a candidate, or not. He had sought the court's direction to ECI and the Centre to procure adequate number of machines so that the Lok Sabha elections could be held smoothly. The Gujarat High Court, on Tuesday, dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Centre to procure adequate numbers of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines for the upcoming general elections..