NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking to revert to ballot paper voting in elections in the country.”What happens is, when you win the election, EVMs (electronic voting machine) are not tampered. When you lose the election, EVMs are tampered (with),” remarked a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and P B Varale.Apart from ballot paper voting, the plea sought several directions including a directive to the Election Commission to disqualify candidates for a minimum of five years if found guilty of distributing money, liquor or other material inducement to the voters during polls.When petitioner-in-person K A Paul said he filed the PIL, the bench said, “You have interesting PILs. How do you get these brilliant ideas?”The petitioner said he is the president of an organisation which has rescued over three lakh orphans and 40 lakh widows.”Why are you getting into this political arena? Your area of work is very different,” the bench retorted.After Paul revealed he had been to over 150 countries, the bench asked him whether each of the nations had ballot paper voting or used electronic voting.
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