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."
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