The Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is a system of implementing assessment to voters utilizing a ballot less voting system. The VVPAT is an autonomous printer system adhered with Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that grants the voters to authenticate that their votes are cast as promised. It spawns a paper slip every time a voter pitches his vote, recording the party to whom the vote was made. The VVPAT slip is conserved in a sealed cover.
How does the VVPAT System works?
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The voting in India is determined via the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that is devised with two units: the control unit and the balloting unit. The balloting unit of the machine has a record of candidate names and party symbols with a blue button next to it. The voter can choose the button adjacent to the candidate’s name they aspire to cast their vote for.
- When the voter casts their vote on the EVM, printer-like VVPAT device connected to the EVM creates a slip displaying a serial number, name and motif of the candidate to whom the vote has been casted for.
- Using this, the voter can authenticate his/her vote.
- This VVPAT slip is visible for 7 seconds before it’s naturally cut.
- The slip, once read, is cut and discharged into the drop box in the VVPAT machine and a bell sound can be heard.
- The VVPAT machines can only be attained by the election officers only in exceptional or exquisite cases.
Importance of VVPAT with EVM
- The VVPAT distinguishes inherent election fraud or any bug in the Electronic Voting Machine. It accommodates a means to investigate the stored electronic outcome.
- The EVMs with VVPAT system assures the certainty of the voting system with complete clarity and rehabilitates the spirit of the voters.
- EVMs and VVPATs also accelerates the election process as calculating votes on EVMs takes much insignificant time than counting paper ballots.
First use of VVPAT with EVM
- The theory of using VVPAT was proposed during an All Party Meeting in October 2010. Finally, the Union Government announced a notification in August 2013 altering the Conduct of
- Election Rules, 1961, to empower the Commission to use VVPAT with Electronic Voting Machines.
- The VVPAT with the EVM was practiced initially in the bye-election in September 2013 for the Noksen Assembly seat in Tuensang district of Nagaland. Afterwards, the VVPATs have been in service in select constituencies in each election to the State Assemblies.
Use of VVPATs in Lok Sabha Elections
- The VVPAT with the EVMs were redistributed in eight Parliamentary constituencies at the time of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
- Silver nitrate is the chemical used in voting inks and this is preferred because this chemical is soluble in water and results in an inky black solution.
- Also, when silver nitrate is put on the skin, the salt present on the skin combine with it to form silver chloride which is not soluble in water and eventually results in getting attached to the skin. Note that it can’t be washed off with soap and water. Not even with hot water, alcohol, bleach or nail polish remover.
- This ink will disappear as then old skin die and hence it is optimal to use silver nitrate as the ink to remove the process to prevent people from voting numerous times.
- These inks are produced in Mysore. The company which makes these ineradicable inks are Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited. Only these two companies in India are authorized to produce these type of inks.
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