Bengaluru: The demand of the ruling Congress Government in Karnataka for replacing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with ballot papers is unlikely to cut much ice with the Election Commission (EC) as the poll body has already initiated the process to introduce EVMs equipped with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) for the forthcoming Assembly elections in 2018.
Karnataka will be the first State in South India to go to the polls with EVMs linked to VVPAT. Karnataka’s Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar said they have been preparing to use EVMS attached with VVPAT in all 54,261 polling booths of the 224 Assembly constituencies to make the process more transparent.
