In separate but concurring judgment, Justice Dipankar Datta stated that 'concerted effort to discredit, diminish and weaken process of this great nation' must be 'nipped in the bud'.
The SC wants clarification on storage of EVMs, microchip in the controlling unit of EVMs and other aspects. The bench asked the poll panel official to appear at 2 pm today.
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No longer can other countries be trusted to stay away from India’s elections. EVMs are the biggest vulnerability in the face of an external aggression.
Opposition party leaders met the Election Commission, demanding a verification of VVPAT slips of randomly-selected polling booths a day before counting of Lok Sabha votes.
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Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
The circuitry of EVM machine must be so simple that even a 2nd year digital electronics undergraduate/diploma student can design it. There is no software or even microprocessor needed to design it. The operations and functions that are required for polling is just of recording and counting votes of each buttons. So it is just a digital register: a very dumb and primitive version of digital storage. A digital register with a very primitive adding function. And all of it must be hardwired. There must absolutely no software in it. It is as dumb as the AC remote with a counter register/counter.
EVM is non-programmable hardwired machine. For comparison, even a very basic 1980s hand calculator or Rs 50 Chinese digital watch must have 1000 times more complex digital circuitry than an EVM. Even an expensive battery based Chinese toy has more complex circuitry than an EVM. Its simplicity is its biggest strength.
But, the real problem lies in the trust of designer and manufacturer of this machine. Do they still following the same basic circuit design? Are they not adding any unnecessary functions in it? Are they increasing its complexity even if it is still non-programmable and hardwired? I believe there is a lack of transparency in the the whole process. Election Commission must make the circuit design public and have multiple independent engineers audit the whole manufacturing process or EVMs itself to ensure that it has the same design in the final product that is made public.
The real lack of fairness of Election Commision in the overall election process has also greatly contributed in maligning this very basic and innocent piece of hardware.
Author says since there is hardly any software in EVMs, there is no possibility of hiding a malware or a Trojan. But since Election Commission refuses to share the software, there is no need to hide a malware in any case! On another track, the software can be made even simpler. Let the EVM system be blind to candidates and party symbols.. Let the machine simply give button-wise counts of votes which can be manually mapped to candidates as per the labels pasted on the EVM ballot unit before polling begins. Then there will simply be no question of any hanky panky.
The circuitry of EVM machine must be so simple that even a 2nd year digital electronics undergraduate/diploma student can design it. There is no software or even microprocessor needed to design it. The operations and functions that are required for polling is just of recording and counting votes of each buttons. So it is just a digital register: a very dumb and primitive version of digital storage. A digital register with a very primitive adding function. And all of it must be hardwired. There must absolutely no software in it. It is as dumb as the AC remote with a counter register/counter.
EVM is non-programmable hardwired machine. For comparison, even a very basic 1980s hand calculator or Rs 50 Chinese digital watch must have 1000 times more complex digital circuitry than an EVM. Even an expensive battery based Chinese toy has more complex circuitry than an EVM. Its simplicity is its biggest strength.
But, the real problem lies in the trust of designer and manufacturer of this machine. Do they still following the same basic circuit design? Are they not adding any unnecessary functions in it? Are they increasing its complexity even if it is still non-programmable and hardwired? I believe there is a lack of transparency in the the whole process. Election Commission must make the circuit design public and have multiple independent engineers audit the whole manufacturing process or EVMs itself to ensure that it has the same design in the final product that is made public.
The real lack of fairness of Election Commision in the overall election process has also greatly contributed in maligning this very basic and innocent piece of hardware.
Author says since there is hardly any software in EVMs, there is no possibility of hiding a malware or a Trojan. But since Election Commission refuses to share the software, there is no need to hide a malware in any case! On another track, the software can be made even simpler. Let the EVM system be blind to candidates and party symbols.. Let the machine simply give button-wise counts of votes which can be manually mapped to candidates as per the labels pasted on the EVM ballot unit before polling begins. Then there will simply be no question of any hanky panky.