The mother of democracy, India, uses 21st-century technology to conduct the world's largest electoral exercise. Here are some little-known and little-understood technological facts for you to know this election season.
The Election Commission of India has told the Supreme Court that no mismatch has been detected ever between the votes counted in the Electronic Voting Machines and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit.
The ECI has attempted a compilation titled Legal history EVMs and VVPATs an analysis of various court cases and this is being regularly updated. It is neither possible nor desirable in this limited space to analyse each case. However, it is often found that it is parties/individuals who lose elections who start finding faults with the EVM, to the extent of raising a shrill crescendo in favour of going back to the paper ballot.