Thirty-six constituencies in Bihar will have EVMs armed with the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) during the forthcoming Assembly polls in Bihar.
The EC has ordered that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), post-2005-version, from Maharashtra and Jharkhand and VVPATs from Haryana, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Delhi and Tamil Nadu be “shifted” to Bihar for the purpose, sources said.
VVPAT is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballot-less voting system. An EVM will have a small attachment to it which after pressing the button for a desired candidate, will print that name on a paper. It will be stored inside the machine and can be used in case of any controversy over the final result.
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