The Election Commission of India (EC) is using Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in polling booths to counter the controversy over the tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). On the Supreme Court’s order, the EC has been randomly verifying 5 VVPATs per constituency in the Lok Sabha elections.

This was being done to restore voter confidence, but the petitions filed in the Telangana High Court have raised further concerns. The petitions say that during the Telangana Assembly elections in December 2018, the vote count of a few VVPATs did not tally with that of the EVMs.

Dasoju Sravan Kumar and DK Aruna, members of the Congress Party, filed petitions in the Telangana High Court pointing out the discrepancies in the VVPAT and EVM vote count. Kumar contested from Khairatabad constituency and Aruna from Gadwal constituency.