Friday, 4 October 2013

NAGALAND FIRST TO USE VVPAT DEVICE FOR VOTING

  • Nagaland on 2 oct 2013 became the first state to use the high-tech voter recording system 'Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail' (VVPAT) with Electronic Voting Machines for the by-elections to Noksen Assembly constituency.
  • VVPAT is a device attached with EVMs which leave a verifiable paper trail of votes cast in an election.
  • It allows the voter to check whether his vote has been recorded with the candidate he had wished to vote for in the EVM.

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