The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that it is contemplating foolproof methods to ensure that electronic voting machines (EVMs) are not misused or tampered with as is being feared in some quarters.
Appearing for the poll panel before a bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi, a senior counsel said the EC was taking various steps in consultation with technical experts and eliciting  प्राप्त करनाthe views of all recognised political parties on the issue.
On the EC's submissions, which were made on Thursday, the apex court adjourned till January 22, the hearing on Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy's petition for a direction to the poll panel that in future elections, EVMs should have a paper trail and issue a paper receipt to each voter.

A Thai criminal court on Wednesday sentenced former defence minister and deputy leader of the defunct Thai Rak Thai Party, Gen. Thammarak Issarangkul-na- Ayutthaya along with three other co-defendants to three years and four months in jail without suspension for electoral fraud.


An Election Commission (EC) official who had been involved in the election fraud was sentenced to a five-year jail term.


Gen Thammarak was alleged of paying an EC official to tamper with the EC's database to enable members of the Pattana Chart Thai Party to run in the April 2, 2006 election which was boycotted by the then opposition Democrat Party . 

This election fraud later led to dissolution of Thai Rak Thai Party and a five-year ban for its 111 members in May 2007.