New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre why a "totaliser" mechanism, which can mask booth-wise voting patterns during counting of votes cast through EVMs, cannot be introduced, observing that anonymisation of voting patterns could in certain cases help protect voters from intimidation and victimisation. A bench, comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, said the mechanism could, in principle, be an "enabler" of voter privacy and sought a specific response from the Union government on the impediments, if any, to introducing a provision similar to Rule 59A of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, for EVM counting. Rule 59A presently provides for mixing of ballot papers i...