Calcutta High Court seeks EC report on EVM, VVPAT shortage ahead of civic polls

Kolkata, Oct 12 (UNI) The Calcutta High Court sought a detailed report from the State Election Commission on the shortage of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines ahead of municipal elections scheduled to be held in seven key municipalities in West Bengal towards the end of the year. A division bench led by Chief Justice Ravindra V. Ghuge on Monday directed the commission to file a specific affidavit clarifying whether polling data collected from EVMs and VVPAT machines can be stored separately on hard disks and whether such a procedure is legally permissible. According…