{"id":35416,"date":"2014-10-04T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35416"},"modified":"2014-10-04T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:09:56","slug":"maharashtra-pils-demanding-paper-trail-device-evms-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/maharashtra-pils-demanding-paper-trail-device-evms-dismissed","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: PILs demanding paper trail device with EVMs dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mumbai High Court has dismissed two PILs seeing a direction to the Government to procure <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pil.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35330\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/suo-motu-pil-gujarat-high-court-new-tourism-zone-gir\/pil-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/pil.jpg?fit=240%2C128&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,128\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pil\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/pil.jpg?fit=240%2C128&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35330\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pil.jpg?resize=240%2C128&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"pil\" width=\"240\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/pil.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/pil.jpg?resize=150%2C80&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>to be attached to EVMs during State Assembly elections in all the 288 seats in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>The PILs were dismissed on September 30 by a bench headed by Chief Justice Mohit Shah which accepted the Government&#8217;s statement that such devices would be used all over the country in a phased manner.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PILs, EVM machines did not meet all the international standards requirements and were open to hacking. 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