Raising suspicion about manipulation of EVMs in the Telangana assembly polls, the state unit of the Congress Tuesday demanded counting of all VVPATs.
As the Congress headed for a comprehensive defeat at the hands of ruling TRS, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N Uttam Kumar Reddy also claimed that the Election Commission declined to accept the party's demand for counting of VVPATs.
He said his party has petitioned the state Chief Electoral Officer here and the Election Commission in Delhi for counting the VVPATs.
The VVPAT or paper trail machine is a device which dispenses a slip with the symbol of the party for which a person has voted for. The slip appears on a small window for seven seconds and then drops in a box and provides a mean to the voter to verify his vote
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