Asserting that every Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) should have a paper trail, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of not releasing the funds for the Election Commission to do this job.
“For the last three years this BJP government has not released funds for the Election Commission to do the job of having a paper trail attached to every EVM machine. Now under the court directions, I think that is being done. We think every EVM machine should have paper trail,” he told ANI here.
Yechury stated that in case there is a dispute, then it’s not the machine but the papers that will be recounted.
“Our proposal is that no EVM machine is used without paper trail,” he added.
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