Bengaluru: The Congress-led government in Karnataka has decided to use ballot papers in all urban local body elections, including the long-pending Bengaluru city council polls.
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Jagdish Singh Jhinda's Panthic Dal raises concerns about ‘misuse of electronic voting machines’, says ‘ballot papers will restore confidence in democratic system’.
Instead of harping on the stale narrative of EVM tampering, the Congress should concentrate on finding a way to hack into the minds of the people—which the BJP has done.
In the original video, available on the Modi's official YouTube channel, the PM praises India's use of EVMs while criticising countries like the US that still rely on ballot papers.
YSRCP chief called for EVMs to be replaced with ballot papers, joining a number of Oppn leaders raising concerns about their efficacy after a post by Elon Musk on X sparked a debate.
Former MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar took to X to defend EVMs used in Indian polls saying they are isolated from any network or media. Tesla CEO responded saying, 'anything can be hacked'.
NCP leader Jitendra Awhad wrongly claimed that women in Manipur vandalised the EVMs because they generated 'lotus slips' no matter which button was pressed.
Electoral reforms non-profit ADR cast doubts over the sanctity of EVMs. But SC virtually dismissed the idea of scrapping them saying trust had to be reposed on ‘somebody’.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
The Form 17 C should account for 98% polled. Why do the final figures for each polling station vary from the votes actually polled? How come the numbers increase vastly after the closing of polling time? The Postal vote number is mostly negligible
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 Form 17 C should account for 98% polled. Why do the final figures for each polling station vary from the votes actually polled? How come the numbers increase vastly after the closing of polling time? The Postal vote number is mostly negligible
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.