India, April 29 -- The Supreme Court's order last week should set at rest the doubts raised about the sanctity of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and thereby, the integrity of the election process itself. The two-judge bench, ruling on a clutch of petitions that demanded 100% cross-verification of votes cast on EVMs with the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) or a return to the ballot paper system, said the machines are "simple, secure and user-friendly" and that a return to paper ballots would be tantamount to undoing many years of electoral reforms: The plea for returning to paper ballots is "foible and unsound" as well as "regressive", and the fears regarding tampering or data mismatches in the electoral process were "unfounded", the judges said....