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f. The paper cards shall be kept in the big container and must shaken before picking up 01 (one) slip by the Returning Officer."

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7. Similarly as per allegations, clause 4(a), 4(e) of circular dated 21-05- 2019 were not followed. Said clauses are reproduced for ready reference:

"4(a) The purpose of mandatory counting and matching result of VVPATs and CUs from 5 randomly selected polling stations is to audit and test if any EVM records votes differently vis-a-vis the slips printed by the corresponding VVPAT attached to it. However, there are multiple scenarios owing to human error or non- adherence to the extant instructions by the polling staff during actual polls in which the total VVPAT Slips count may vary from the CU count. A few illustrative scenarios are cases where VVPAT slips are not fully removed from the VVPAT after mock poll or CRC not done in CU after mock poll or other such cases of human error. 4(e) A thorough analysis/enquiry shall be conducted in due course in all cases where the VVPAT slips count failed to tally with the electronic result of the CU and the exact reasons, technological, procedural, systemic, human error or lapses in compliance shall be ascertained and appropriate action(s) taken by the Commission."