The Supreme Court on Wednesday called the microcontrollers separately programmed by manufacturers in electronic voting machines (EVMs) “agnostic”, for they do not recognise political parties or candidates but only the buttons pressed by voters.
“Microcontrollers in the control units [of EVMs] are agnostic. They do not recognise party or candidate names. What they recognise is the buttons pressed on the ballot units,” Justice Sanjiv Khanna, heading a two-judge Bench, observed.
Justice Khanna said the buttons on the ballot units were interchangeable.
