Now that the quid professional quo in India’s opaque electoral funding has been uncovered, digital voting machines are the following port of name for judicial scrutiny. And rightly so.

The nationwide elections have been paperless since 2004. Yet, the voting gadgets stay deeply controversial. On April 16, Supreme Court judges will hear petitions demanding 100% matching of ballots recorded electronically with paper slips. Currently, these bodily data are briefly proven to electors behind a glass display screen; solely a small pattern will get counted.