Changing VVPAT count protocol not practical: EC to 22 opposition parties
The guideline broadly states that the slip count should be held at the end of counting of votes polled in EVMs.
The opposition parties, which had approached the EC on Tuesday, wanted five random VVPATs to be counted first so that if there is a problem or a mismatch, the entire VVPAT slips can be counted at the beginning itself. Image source: