NEW DELHI, May 14 -- A review petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, challenging the judgment in the EVM-VVPAT case whereby a plea for 100% cross-verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) data with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) records was turned down.
Arun Kumar Agarwal filed the petition, contending errors apparent in the judgment. According to the review petition filed through advocate Neha Rathi, the court's April 26 judgment overlooked the vulnerability of symbol loading units (SLUs) and the necessity for their audit. Agarwal claimed the possibility of additional data in the SLU beyond necessary images was disregarded by the court.
It added that the judgment erroneously recorded that the percentage of VVPAT...