Kohima, February 15 (MExN): The Election Commission of India has directed to all the state Government that VVPAT shall be used with EVMs at all the polling stations in all the future Elections to the Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is an independent system attached with the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that allows the voters to verify that their votes are cast as intended.
The VVPAT is attached to the Ballot Unit of the EVM and both the Ballot Unit and the VVPAT are placed in the voting compartment. The VVPAT has a small transparent glass window on it. When a voter comes to vote and presses the blue button on the Ballot Unit (BU) to vote for the candidate of his/her choice, the glass window on the VVPAT lights up and a printed paper slip containing the serial number, name of the Candidate and Election Symbol of the Candidate is visible to the voter behind the glass window. The voter witnesses all these details on the paper slip and is satisfied that his vote has been cast as intended.
The printed paper slip remains visible to the voter through the transparent glass window for 7 (seven) seconds. After 7 (seven) seconds, the printed paper slip gets automatically cut and falls into the sealed printed paper slip compartment/drop box of the VVPAT below followed by a beep sound. Thereafter the light goes off behind the glass window .The VVPAT is thus going to further enhance the transparency and verifiability in poll process.
