Some candidates of Nagpur have raised objections on lack of Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in the EVMs to be deployed for the Corporation polls to be conducted tomorrow. But the Nagpur Municipal Corporation administration has rejected the objections citing no such directives from the State election commission.
Source: Candidates raise objections, NMC rejects them
That source also states VVPAT has been made mandatory by SC in a 2013 ruling.
VVPAT has been used in Assam, 2014 Maharashtra state polls and will be used in Punjab and UP soon.
Why skip just ten but very significant Corporations in one of the most urbanized states of India?
Corporate Court Audit Nearing An End
Zurich-Orbital Journal
Nick Hunter
09/13/2081
With 3 months left in 2081, the Corporate Court’s regular audit is finally slowing down. It’s been a long few years, and with the end in sight, the Court has announced that new procedures for the audit are coming into effect on January 1st, 2081. The full text can be found at <Corporate_Court_rankings.host>. Some of the highlights are the new timeframes, however. AAA-rated corporation rankings will be revised every three months starting from the day the procedures take effect, and AAA status is going to be evaluated once per year. For the smaller corporations, AA-rating status is going to be looked at twice a year, and those A-rated corporations who get promoted must maintain reports of their growth for a year to prove that they are able to hold that status.
For some of us, these changes will mean big things. New citizenship; the loss of citizenship (and for those born into a demoted corporation with no nation to go to afterwards, they have my sympathy); and corporate airspace and extraterritorial property lines changing, potentially drastically. But what gets interesting is what hasn’t finished yet: Ares Macrotechnology’s evaluation. It seems that the Court is still going over Ares with a fine-toothed comb, and no one seems to be sure when it is going to finish. Being one of the last to finish this late into the audit could be a sign of ill tidings for Ares’ AAA rating, but until it finishes, no one will know for sure.
