Friday, July 24, 2009

Electronic Voting Machines

In Recent times, we are hearing from all opposition parties in India to ban EVMs (Electronic votign Machines). Is it just because of they are in opposition and confuse voters the failure of victory is not because of their failure in reality and its because of malfunctioning EVMs!!!.

To be precise even the oppositions know its not the only reason for failure and they say the MLA and MP votes are interchanged and the votes are gone to some particular party in some constituency. In some places it is heard that no votes are gone to any opponent except the winner :) what happened to the oppenent vote atleast!!!

Keeping all these aside and coming to reality of EVM, is it tamper proof and any technical champ can easily say its absolutely not tamper proof. Seems the EVMs are prepared just to catch the vote and count them. Where are the standards maintained, What about security threats for the chips designed for them. It is already proved that there is no mapping mechanism between the two boxes (control unit and other). These are the techinical aspects where it can be made malfunctioned in many ways like just before counting starts make sure that the votes are interchanged such that a particular candidate will win.

The logic is very simple to implement :) just give the winner as input and it can easily be implemented to make sure that he will win always!!!. Any one have doubts cant it be implemented!!!

Ok, coming to voters point of view. earlier with ballot papers voter is sure enough that his vote is casted to his leader since he will mark it on paper with his eye witness which cannot be tampered for ever ofcourse keep things aside like rigging, pouring ink in ballot boxes which can be avoided with proper security measures like using vedio recording, police picketing etc..

In this scenario there is lot of time and money investment for keeping them safe and counting crores of votes manually. Whatz the solution for this then!!! We wish Goverment of India takes this with high priority and make the EVMs more strict and ensure they cannot be tampered in any circumstances. A better way is to give a reciept for the vote casted and put it again a ballot box so that the voter is satisfied enough to know that he casted vote to his leader only !!! and keep it back in the ballot box for furture verification in any greviances raised on EVM counting!!!

WISH INDIA A BRIGHTER FUTURE

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