India's election is nearly over: voting began on 11 April, and the final ballot was cast on 19 May with results out on 23 May.
A number of videos, allegedly showing Electronic Voting Machines being tampered with, went viral on social media on Tuesday.
These allegations have left a bitter taste in the aftermath of the mammoth election in the world's largest democracy, souring what should have been a triumphant achievement for the Election Commission .
During voting, EVMs are connected to a Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machine, which dispenses a slip of paper with the symbol of the party the voter selected.
The Supreme Court has ordered the EC to tally the results from five EVMs with VVPAT receipts in at least five polling stations in every assembly seat.
India's opposition parties are meeting the election watchdog on Tuesday to demand more transparency in counting of votes on 23 May .
Opposition leaders said the EC had to ensure that there was no possibility of anybody manipulating the Electronic Voting Machines which were used to record votes in the general election that concluded on Sunday.
In Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur constituency, a candidate belonging to the opposition Bahujan Samaj Party held a protest outside a room where the machines have been stored ahead of the counting.
The move comes after a slew of exit polls predicted that the governing Bharatiya Janata Party would get a comfortable majority in parliament to form a government.
Only two polls - Nielsen-ABP and NewsX-Neta - have predicted that the BJP would lose at least 40 seats in UP to regional parties.
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