After
It had been conclusively proved to the satisfaction of the Hon’ble
Supreme Court that our country’s EVMs ARE tamperable,  the country’s
Hon’ble Supreme Court has directed the country’s Election Commission to
introduce a paper backup of votes cast through electronic voting
machines, but allowed the commission to introduce it in stages during
general elections next year.Election Commission agreed in principle to
voting machines with printouts.

Last year, the Supreme Court of this country, having been convinced
of an undeniable, edible possibility of EVMs getting tampered with and
that easily hacked — even from afar — had ordered the imbecilic Election
Commission and the indolent Government to provide about 1600 crore
(1600, 0000000) rupees — convert this into your respective
currency! — for manufacturing these VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit
Trail) voting machines; which show a verifiable paper receipt to the
voter.

1) Mr.Sadasivam CJI, a brahmin who passed the order of putting
new VVAT voting machines in use in a “phased manner”, has unwittingly
shirked its duty & committed a grave error of judgment dealt a fatal
blow to the Country’s democracy  who should have ordered, as a caution,
that till the time this newer set of about 1300000 voting machines is
manufactured in full and so deployed throughout the country, ballot
paper system would be brought in. No such precautionary measure was
decreed by the apex court.

2) Mr. Mohan Bagawath, a brahmin and a drop out who is not a
Constitutional expert says that there should not be any caste based 
reservation which is against the Constitution that provides reservation
for SC/ST/OBCs.

3) Mr.Narendra Modi, a baniya who contested elections saying that he
belonged to Backward Caste though he belonged to the Gandhi’s upper
baniya caste and violated all the Silas such as responsible for killing
large number of  human beings in 2002 Gujarat riots in the name of
religion as a result who was not given American VISA. He lied that he
was not married and became CM of Gujarat for 4 times. He looted the
Country’s wealth along with Capitalists and Industrialists and spent
crores of rupees to become the PM by way of paid news and advertisements
to almost all the media of our motherland made hay in May!

As this is a nation where intelligence of the Militant Stealth
Hindutva Cult of RSS brahmins rules in closed quarters, idiocy democracy
in the open. We make gods out of mud, then, prostrating before them, we
remain, as before, a dud. And, some times, in the name of our fancied
little god and his glory, my motherland’s favorite sons also kill each
other, with the deep ingrained vigor of all our bestial ancestry, and
like a whiff of wind are gone — dead.

Lest it becomes confusing, let’s say it as it is — we are , like
every other human being, are truly one really, really queer kin of apes.
In some fields, ahead of others and beyond compare; in other areas, we
are as silly and supercilious as a bull-hounded mare. In a nutshell, at
least in the loftier mystical and evolved spiritual circles “get” some
things well — like higher metaphysics — while failing miserably,
simplistically, in simple, elementary physics.

After all, who in one’s right mind would yet allow the use of
absolutely antiquated, completely out-dated, easily hack-able and highly
tamper-able “high school technology” based, obsolete EVMs (electronic
voting machines) in national elections, even now — in 2014?

More than 80 democracies in the world have simply done away with
them, dumping them in the trash, or simply declared the usage of this
simplistic voting system susceptible to fraud, and hence declaring the
same as illegal — as the Supreme Courts of Germany and Holland indeed
have done. Even Japan, from where EVMs originated, has long abandoned
its rogue babies, and is using paper ballot system since then. All the
advanced democracies in the West, except the most dull-headed ones, have
reverted to a voter verifiable system or the ballot paper. In Canada,
even at the ,most basic school level, ballot paper voting is in use.

Last year, the Supreme Court of this country, having been convinced
of an undeniable, edible possibility of EVMs getting tampered with and
that easily hacked — even from afar — had ordered the imbecilic Election
Commission and the indolent Government to provide about 1600 crore
(1600, 0000000) rupees — convert this into your respective
currency! — for manufacturing these VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit
Trail) voting machines; which show a verifiable paper receipt to the
voter.

This is the Fundamental Right of a citizen of any democracy, as per
the laws laid down by the Constitution. Only 20, 000 such voting
machines have been provided for the entire country in this, 2014
election! The Country  has 29 states now — with Telagana being the
latest. In most of them, depending upon their size etc., either about
400 VVPAT machines are being deployed, or some such similar ridiculous
number — more or less — has been made available in the length and
breadth of the country. It’s an asinine, bland, cruel, demeaning joke we
1.25 billion jokers have been “blessed” with by the powers that be.

As to how EVMs can be hacked into, tampered with, and results
favorably manipulated via software interference and other means — from
near and from far, far away — this can easily be found by anybody by
just going to Google etc. and filling “EVM HACKING, TAMPERING” or
something to this effect in the Search. And lo, behold! a plethora of
information will just overwhelm your overly chilled-out, lesser
employed, un-billed brains.

Quite a few unscrupulous politicians and every other most
“honorable” political party worthy of its “salt”, such as Militant
Stealth Hindutva Cult RSS’s BJP  with the support of Supreme Court and
Chief Election Commission surely played this comic-tragic game of
hacking into and hijacking the votes of a billion people! Thus, one who
outsmarts the other such fine folks, armed with their hacking forks in
this merry-go-around, won.

The rest — this or that “tsunami” or wave in favor of one or the
other, poll forecasts and the “newbie”, the over enthused, seeming game
changers in the making — well, they may well fall flat on their dumb
faces.

Well, crib all you want. But don’t cry, my dear countrymen. After all,
the same model of EVMs is yet very much in use in South Africa, Bangla
Desh, Bhutan, Nepal, Nigeria, Venezuela etc. These poor folks of the
said “non-techy” countries — millions of them — too cannot figure out as
to what the hell had, yet is happening, in their dear short-circuited
“developed” democracies. Nor will you.

The process of elections is the most sacrosanct duty in a Republic
which ECI should carry out with utmost diligence. Caesar’s wife should
be above suspicion. Free and fair polls should not only be ensured but
APPEAR to be ensured to the satisfaction of the voters.

India first tested EVMs in a by-election in 1982, but the machines
were first deployed on a large scale of over 1 million in a general
election in 2004.
In 2010, security researcher Hari Prasad and his
associates released a video that they said demonstrated vulnerabilities
in the EVMs, after hacking an EVM that had already been used in an
election.

Prasad and his team replaced the display board of the machine with a
look-alike component that could be instructed through a Bluetooth
connection on a mobile phone to steal a percentage of the votes in favor
of a chosen candidate. The researchers also used a pocket-size device
that could be attached to the memory of the EVM to change the votes
stored in the machine during the period between the election and the
public counting session.

www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2006/10/71957

Building a Better Voting Machine

Kim Zetter  10.18.06

It’s been six years since the Florida
presidential fiasco launched a flurry of spending around the country to
replace antiquated punch-card and lever voting machines with expensive
new electronic touch-screen machines. Yet new controversies over the
security of e-voting machines continue to crop up, making it clear that
the new machines are just as problematic as the ones they replaced.
Why can’t the voting machine companies get it right?
With election
season upon us, Wired News spoke with two of the top computer scientists
in the field, UC Berkeley’s David Wagner and Princeton’s Ed Felten, and
came up with a wish list of features we would include in a voting
machine, if we were asked to create one.
These recommendations can’t guarantee clean results on their own. Voting
machines, no matter how secure, are no remedy for poor election
procedures and ill-conceived election laws. So our system would include
thorough auditing and verification capabilities and require faithful
adherence to good election practices, as wells as topnotch usability and
security features.
Here, then, is our nomination for the best voting machine for 2008. Use
the comments tool below to tell us how your perfect voting machine would
look.
Hardware

Combine the best features of touch-screen and
optical-scan machines in a single device. Touch-screens are easy to use
and are flexible enough to accommodate disabled voters and multiple
languages. Optical-scan devices provide reliable paper trails.
We recommend a third alternative that combines the best attributes of
both — a ballot marking machine, such as one made by Election Systems
and Software.
http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/voting-equipment-ess

http://www.misterwhat.co.uk/company/1570130-election-systems-and-software-newbury
http://gab.wi.gov/publications/other/ess-unity-3400-approval-letter

http://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/cases/ess/ess.htm

Government Accountability Board
STATE OF WISCONSIN
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/ess/automark/

AutoMARK
The AutoMARK Voter Assist Terminal (VAT) is an optical scan ballot marker designed for use
by people who are unable to personally mark an optical scan ballot due to physical impairments
or language barriers. Originally patented by Eugene Cummings in 2003 and developed by

Vogue Election Systems, the AutoMARK ballot marking device received certification to the 2002
VSS in 2005 and later changed its name to AutoMARK Technical Systems. ES&S announced
its purchase of AutoMARK Technical Systems on January 28, 2008. While the AutoMARK is

most often used in configuration with optical scanners manufactured by ES&S, it is also used
together with scanners from Sequoia and Premier/Diebold in some jurisdictions.
The AutoMARK is a hybrid of several devices: a scanner, printer, touch screen display, and

input device. The data for a given election is stored on a compact flash card. Using the system
software, an election official is able to convert election data created for use in the AutoMARK.
During this process it is also possible to customize the election data, including adding

translations or phonetic pronunciation of difficult names for use with the synthesized speech.
Once the flash card has been programmed, it is inserted and locked into the AutoMARK.

http://www.xssl.co.uk/

About Xpress
Xpress is part of the ERS group and is the leading
supplier of electoral management software in the UK. We work with over
170 local authorities and our expert team primarily consisting of
electoral software development specialists and former electoral
administrators, provides our customers with access to a first class
telephone service to support our robust and functionally rich, market
leading software.

What We Do
Xpress provides a complete electoral registration and
election management system and support services throughout the UK. All
features of the system are accessed via intuitive and easy-to-use
Windows styled interfaces, providing optimum performance and
functionality while harnessing the power and flexibility offered by
Microsoft® products.
As part of the ERS Group, we provide; telephone, Internet and SMS
electoral registration services, Election Stationery and Postal Voting
Packs, Poll Cards, Ballot Papers and Pre-Election Mailings, Referendum
Services and Business Improvement District Ballots to name a few.

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New York: Nassau to probe voting machine failures | Newsday

Nov 8 2012
» The Voting News
More than 200 new electronic voting
machines in Nassau County jammed on Election Day, forcing voters to cast
some 20,000 paper ballots and delaying final tabulations in some close
races, election officials said. About 4 percent of the 463,000 Nassau
voters who went to the polls Tuesday