'After ISI report, EC to decide on raising polling stations where VVPAT slips matched with results'

Amid demands by parties to increase the number of polling stations where paper trail machine slips are matched with EVM results, outgoing Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat has said the poll panel will take a final call on the issue after the Indian Statistical Institute submits a report on it.

"They will be submitting the report after these five assembly elections and then commission will be able to take a call," he told PTI.

Asked whether the number of polling stations where slips are matched will increase, he said, "That I can't say, whether it will be increasing, status quo or decreasing. It will depend on the report."