KR Koshti had filed a public interest litigation alleging that VVPAT was being introduced in the elections for the first time
A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed with a prayer to direct the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and the District Election Officer (DEO) to organize awareness programmes for the use of None Of The Above (NOTA) and Voters Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).
KR Koshti had filed a public interest litigation alleging that VVPAT was being introduced in the elections for the first time.
Similarly, a NOTA was introduced only in the last Lok Sabha elections. Even that was new for the voters and the voters found it extremely difficult to it, the PIL stated.
Citing a 2011 census report, the petitioner claimed that some 78 per cent population of the state is literate. This clearly indicates that the people of the state could easily learn the process of dealing with the new system.
Therefore, CEO, DEO and returning officer should also be directed to organise awareness programmes either at the office of the collector or at the polling booths, the PIL added. The EC had earlier directed all the states to hold such training camps at the earliest.
However, when the matter was being heard on Wednesday, the first division bench, comprising Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice Vipul Pancholi found that the counsel appearing on behalf of the CEO was missing. The case will be heard on Thursday.
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- KR Koshti had filed a public interest litigation alleging that VVPAT was being introduced in the elections for the first time.
- A NOTA was introduced only in the last Lok Sabha elections. Even that was new for the voters and the voters found it extremely difficult to it, the PIL stated.
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