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Hi Mr Shivam Vij.
Appreciate Ur write up on can evms be tampered,and options before political parties or candidate, can u let me know about the option of voters filing an affidavit for approaching the commission or courts, is there any law or rules formulated which u can quote, if so kindly share
Thanks
Let us assume for a moment that EVM are not tampered, but in theory they can be tampered as demonstrated by AAP in Delhi Assembly. Do consider that their are numerous accounts of Independents not getting their won vote and loosing the elections by ‘zero’ votes. What about the order of Uttaranchal high court to sieze 4000 EVM’s when few tampered EVM’s were found. What about its investigation? Also if you remember Delhi MCD elections were fought with EVM’s brought from Gujarat instead of using the 15000 EVM’s available in the state of Delhi because the Gujarat EVM were of a previous less secure EVM Generation. Do remember the EVM Paper trail leak video also proved it conclusively that No matter where you press the Button Paper Slip was of BJP. Adding insult to this the Election Commission is not ready to verify the EVM paper trail after Gujarat Elections, Congress has demanded it on 21 seats, but the EC is not responding. BJP chooses to rig the elections most important to it. BJP was more successful in rigging a lot of State elections and it will do it again.
Congress is bitter, so they are making up stories.
Every one who supports EVM must answer two questions :
1. Have you seen the software code for EVM ?
2. Why almost all malfunctioning EVMs vote for BJP ?
If software code is not public and open source, it can have algorithms to favor a certain party is a non obvious way.
Probability of EVM having only one party voting malfunction is so low that is almost impossible; mathematically!
I do not believe that EVM can be hacked by blue-tooth and such non-sense but maintaining faith in electoral process is also very important. If we can wait for a month for elections to be over, we can wait a few more hours for result.
Cases that when the button in favour of another party was pressed, the vote went to BJP. This happened in UP election. Malfunctioning of RAMs in favour of BMP was reported in MP too. Similar thing happened in Gujarat. The button in favour of Congress could not be pressed at all. After such malpractice was reported, the EC simply said that the EVE was then replaced. In Tripura, the then ruling party complained about the problems in voting process. But the EC ordered for repoll in other booths where there were no problems. It is possible that the benefiting party leave out small fishes, but it will cause malfunctioning to catch big fishes. Why do the buttons register votes always in favour of BJP?
Shiv Vij does not know everything. Please go to booths from your studio rooms on day of polling. The bottom line is EVMs have not been proved to be tamper-proof. Please dont lecture what you dont know.
Exactly EVMs have NOT been proved to be tamper-proof. That pretty much settles it in favour of paper ballots.
Very good piece on EVM. It is not very hard to understand why congress is asking for that, they so poor in leadership and future thought that today in this AI era they want to devide Hindu and win election in Karnataka much like Envaders Mughal and British.
In fact congress does not have sense today to understand what is happening with them it is because they focused al 70 years on one family and still doing that. Therefore they lost the natural ability to talk to the surrounding and changing environment and grow through learning and experience.
They still have reference point from history like muslim iftar, jalidar topi, reservation, backward forward Hindu devide. That what they learnt in past and now refusing to learn new things for future. It is suicidal for congress. They got burried by their past loads
Sir, please stop spinning the issue around. The EC and BJP have all along claimed that EVMs cannot be tampered with. But now you spin the question around: “EVMs could be manipulated, but are they being manipulated in elections where the BJP has been winning?” The bottom line is EVMs have not been proved to be tamper-proof. Rest is nonsense, whether BJP rigged Delhi poll or other polls etc, is immaterial to the central issue. As a voter I want to know only whether my vote could be manipulated through the machine and the EC, BJP have not been able to say no, it cannot be.
One hardly gets a couple of minutes near the EVM. Don’t know if EVM can be tampered within this short time. Kejriwal tried to show that EVM can be manipulated… everyone has seen how far was he successful?
Can it not be tampered even before you are there, days, months even weeks before? Just answer this question, forget Kejriwal and whether he was successful or not.
that is why there was a hackathon and u didnt participate in it. cold feet?
Was there a hackathon? No to the best of my knowledge. First off only political parties could participate in the ‘hackathon’, which had some very self serving terms to ensure a heads I win, tails you lose situation. I wrote to several parties, and offered to nail the EC’s claim but they did not reply. I wrote to media to give me only 10 minutes and public platform, I do not even need an EVM, but nobody is willing.