The Election Commission of India — variously called the Election Commission, the ECI or EC — was set up in 1950 as an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for carrying out election processes in India. It administers elections to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies, and the offices of the President and Vice President.
Headquartered in Delhi, the Election Commission consists of three members — a chief election commissioner and two other commissioners — who are appointed by the President. They have a tenure of six years or until they reach the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. The Election Commission prepares, maintains, and updates the electoral roll; supervises the nomination of candidates; registers political parties and classifies them on national and state levels; and monitors election campaigns, including political fund-raising.
Hacking manipulation takes place at the counting stage towards the end.
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ECI has already implemented them.
1. Election commission already allows and even mandates political parties (before candidate names are finalised) to send their representatives who can be an expert to observe First Level Checking of EVMs (this is done under CCTV). After that, at each level candidate/or representative is asked in writing and called to observe setting up of the machine. All candidates/representatives sign at all these levels. (no one objects if they, the process will stop.
2. This point is also covered and no one knows (even ECI, RO or district magistrate) which ATM will go where. EVMs are randomised thrice to ensure that their final destination is not known even a few days before the election. Polling booth location or polling party are not known even 2 days before an election. Randomisation happened by an NIC software in front of candidates/political parties/representatives and they observe the process and then sign.
3. There already a process where a voter can challenge the machine if he/she feels that the vote did not go to the political party. After the challenge, the Presiding officer will press the button (a whole detailed procedure exists) to confirm the defect.
4. On defects, machines are replaced. Replaced or defective machine, if they have some votes, are not counted if the winning margin is less than the total number of votes in the machine.
5. Counting is done in the round of 14 based on the assessment of the rooms availability, manpower required, CCTV and other handheld camera required. On any difference (leave aside 0.5 per cent), the counting is invalid. The possibility of difference would arise only and only if the Presiding officer failed to erase the mock poll data done on election day 30 minutes before the actual election. The mock poll is done to show the accuracy of the EVM to the polling agent of all the candidates by polling an equal number of votes to each candidate. They then sign.
Sensible suggestions.Very feasible. EC should consider these seriously
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