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The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a batch of petitions seeking mandatory cross-verification of the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips. However, a bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked the Election Commission of India to examine the suggestion if the VVPAT slips may have unique barcodes on them in addition to the party symbol, which in turn could be counted by an electronic machine.

The Supreme Court rejected petitions for mandatory cross-verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips but directed the Election Commission to explore adding barcodes to VVPAT slips. Justice Khanna introduced measures for securing and verifying Symbol Loading Units and burnt memory semicontrollers post-election, with associated costs covered by requesting candidates unless tampering is detected.

The Election Commission of India has announced the schedule for the second phase of voting in Odisha, set for May 20, 2024.

According to Dhal, the EC has so far received 3,873 complaints through C-Vigil app for the model code of conduct violation and among those, 3,854 cases have been disposed so far.

Polling will be held in as many as 28 Assembly seats of Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Berhampur in the fourth phase.

Polling booths that are vulnerable to booth capturing will be monitored by 900 Micro Observers.

An order issued on Thursday by the EC said: "All the 22 polling stations (21 in Jammu and 1 in Udhampur) shall be mapped to camps/zones ensuring that every zone has at least one special polling station.

In a letter to Odisha Chief Secretary, ECI Secretary Rakesh Kumar has asked for the transfer of several officers out to non-election related post with immediate effect

The prohibition period is set to commence from 7 a.m. on April 19, and conclude at 6:30 p.m. on June 1.

This comes as the continuation of the EC's past practice of facilitating the Kashmiri migrant to vote through postal ballots and special polling stations set at Jammu, Udhampur, and New Delhi.

In a major update, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued transfer orders for non-cadre officers who are posted at leadership positions as District Magistrate (DM) and Superintendent of Police (SP).

“The Election Commission of India has today uploaded the data received in digitised form from the registry of the Supreme Court on electoral bonds on its website," the EC added.

They added that even as the ECI is scheduled to announce on Saturday the polling and counting dates for the Lok Sabha elections, the total number of NBWs yet to be executed in West Bengal is above 30,000.

The decision comes days after the resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission will now collate and release the data by 5 p.m. on Friday, as per the court order.