The machines were made by a private company which had made huge donations to the then ruling party. It is not an electronic instrument, it is just an instrument doing calculations. As far as the machines are concerned, they have been certified, experimented, and trusted.01% of the machines, according to the voters, did not work. Then it was referred to a committee of engineers in DRDO. I agree there must have been some apprehension. The first decision we had to take was on the machines – Electronic Voting Machines." They wanted VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail).In America, this was introduced and then withdrawn. They were even questioned in the court and nothing happened." They were interested. I want this Gate Stopper to be sent to Delhi. In fact, I met Dr Indiresan before taking the decision to introduce the machine everywhere. But with a CCTV the secrecy of the ballot is lost. Nobody can do anything unless you break open the machine, remove the old chip, put in a new chip and things like that.Jayalalithaa and Amarinder Singh kept complaining. Then another Committee headed by Dr Indiresan of IIT. None of them could find one. For some states like Andhra and Orissa, where we held simultaneous elections, we needed more machines. We will verify what the problem is.If they are going to tally the machine count with the VVPAT, then how much time will it take to cover 1 million polling stations? Why are we complicating the system? If we have anything to suggest to improve the system, please do.