<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea for 100% matching of VVPATs with EVM vote counts during the counting in general elections 2019, scheduled for May 23.</p>.<p>"A larger bench of Chief Justice of India has already passed the order, no such prayer can be entertained ...you are creating a nuisance," a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah told Chennai-based petitioner 'Tech4All'.</p>.<p>"We can't come in the way of people electing their government. Let the country elect its government," the bench said.</p>.<p>The petition filed by Chennai-based 'Tech for All' claimed that there were some design defects in the EVMs, so there must be 100 % verification of EVM votes with the VVPAT.</p>.<p>A lawyer mentioned the matter for early hearing but the court took the petition on board and dismissed it.</p>.<p>The top court had on May 7 rejected a plea by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and 20 other opposition leaders for raising VVPAT match for vote counts in EVMs during general elections 2019.</p>.<p>They wanted the court to reconsider its order of April 8 by which VVPAT match was ordered to be raised from one to five EVMs in per Assembly segment of each Parliamentary constituency. </p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea for 100% matching of VVPATs with EVM vote counts during the counting in general elections 2019, scheduled for May 23.</p>.<p>"A larger bench of Chief Justice of India has already passed the order, no such prayer can be entertained ...you are creating a nuisance," a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah told Chennai-based petitioner 'Tech4All'.</p>.<p>"We can't come in the way of people electing their government. Let the country elect its government," the bench said.</p>.<p>The petition filed by Chennai-based 'Tech for All' claimed that there were some design defects in the EVMs, so there must be 100 % verification of EVM votes with the VVPAT.</p>.<p>A lawyer mentioned the matter for early hearing but the court took the petition on board and dismissed it.</p>.<p>The top court had on May 7 rejected a plea by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and 20 other opposition leaders for raising VVPAT match for vote counts in EVMs during general elections 2019.</p>.<p>They wanted the court to reconsider its order of April 8 by which VVPAT match was ordered to be raised from one to five EVMs in per Assembly segment of each Parliamentary constituency. </p>
