Electronics Corporation of India Ltd and Bharat Electronics Ltd have refused to disclose the names and contact details of manufacturers and suppliers of various EVM and VVPAT components under the RTI Act citing “commercial reliance”, according to RTI replies from the PSUs to an activist. .
Activist Venkatesh Nayak had filed two identical Right to Information requests with ECIL and BEL, seeking details of manufacturers and suppliers of various components used in the assembly of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and paper audit trail verifiable by voters (VVPAT). .
The VVPAT is an independent vote verification system that allows voters to see if their votes have been cast correctly. ECIL and BEL, public sector undertakings under the Ministry of Defence, manufacture EVMs and VVPATs for the Election Commission. Nayak also requested a copy of the purchase orders for the components of both power supplies.
SC reserves verdict on cross-verification
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) after taking note of responses to the queries that he had raised before the Electoral Commission.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta sought answers from an election panel official to five questions related to the functioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs), including whether the microcontrollers installed in them are reprogrammable.
Deputy Election Commissioner Nitesh Kumar Vyas, who had earlier made a presentation before the court on the functioning of the EVMs, was summoned by the court at 2 pm to answer the questions.
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