MUMBAI: Amid large-scale protests by the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, which has alleged manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines during the recent assembly elections, the Election Commission of India has said the mandatory a VVPAT slip count in five randomly selected polling stations in each assembly constituency had been conducted on November 23, and the outcome matched the results delivered by …
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” — H.G. To ensure “counted as recorded”, we should tally the EVM count with the manual count of VVPAT slips for a statistically significant sample size of EVMs drawn at random from a suitably defined ‘population’ of EVMs. The Supreme Court did …
