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Electoral Reforms
Despite the fact that
‘It took EC 4 years to admit that EVMs could be hacked’
,
if any one suggests them to revert back to Paper Ballots the EC
questions “What is the Proof you have to say that the EVMs are fraud?”
in a typical brahminical way.
Here is
Proof No1
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/ls-election-it-took-ec-4-years-to-admit-that-evms-could-be-hacked/20140314.htm
March 14, 2014 15:16 IST
In
October 2013, the Supreme Court, in a landmark verdict, directed the
Election Commission to equip its Electronic Voting Machines with Vote
Verifiable Paper Audit Trial systems, which allows voters to verify that
their votes are cast as intended and serves as an additional barrier to
changing or destroying votes.
Subsequently, the EC introduced VVPAT
in 10 assembly constituencies in Mizoram and one constituency each in
Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan during the elections
in these states.
Now, as the nation gears up for Lok Sabha election,
the ECI has created a flutter by announcing that it may not be ready to
roll out VVPAT before 2019.
The poll body says that it will need about
14 lakh VVPAT machines to introduce the system in all 543 Lok Sabha
constituencies. However, it believes that so many machines cannot be
produced and tested in such a short duration of time.
Under VVPAT, a
printer-like apparatus is linked to EVM.
When a vote is cast, a
receipt is generated showing the serial number, name and symbol of the
candidate.
It confirms the vote and the voter can verify the details.
The receipt, once viewed, goes inside a container linked to the EVM
and can only be accessed by the election officers in rarest of rare
cases.
The system allows a voter to challenge his or her vote on
basis of the paper receipt for the first time.
As per a new rule, the
booth presiding officer will have to record the dissent of the voter,
which would have to be taken into account at time of counting.
G V L
Rao, part of Save India Democracy which exposed the frauds being
committed through EVMs, told rediff.com that the bigger issue was that
the government dragged its feet on sanctioning funds for the
introduction of VVPAT despite the Supreme Court passing its order a year
ago.
Rao said, “To begin with every EVM needs to be kept in a secure
environment so that it is cannot be tampered with. However, what we had
found is that these machines were dumped in an open yard which made it
vulnerable to tampering.”
“As a result of dumping these machines in
the open, many had gone missing and the ECI has not yet revealed these
details to us.”
Rao added, “The most important part of this machine is
the chip, which contains the source code. We suggested was that since
these machines were kept in the open, it would be advisable to at least
change the chip. These chips cost not more than Rs 100 each.”
“The
other suggestion that we made and was not taken was regarding the
maintenance of the machines. These machines are manufactured by Bharat
Electronics Limited and Electronics Corporation of India. These
companies send engineers to carry out a maintenance check or a first
level check. Shockingly, these are not employees of the above mentioned
two companies. They are agents hired on a contract basis and they
conduct the inspection of these machines before the elections.”
“We
suggested that that the job of the first level check be given to the
National Informatics Centre so that the person doing the job has
accountability. We had pointed out that some of these persons who were
hired to conduct this check belonged to software companies that were
being run by politicians.”
“The chances of tampering are higher in
such cases. However, the ECI did not agree with us. The problem is that
there is a leap of blind faith in technology and the ECI blindly trusts
everything that the manufacturer does. We have always pointed out that
elections cannot be based on trust.”
“It is necessary to ensure
safeguards and more importantly the ECI should have implemented VVPAT by
now. It took them almost four years to acknowledge that EVMs could be
hacked.”
“When a person votes there ought to be a valid receipt of the
same, just the way one would get a statement when cash is drawn out of
an ATM. Without a valid record one cannot go back and check in case
there is a problem.”
Re: Save Indian democracy
by Vishvaksenah E (View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 04:23 PM
EVMs
can be easily hacked, those r not completely indigenous, the chips and
ECs inside EVMs r imported from unknown country. (may be from _Italy).
EVMs can be pre-programmed b4 elections and can be manipulated after
polling is over.
Re: Re: Save Indian democracy
by Vishvaksenah E
(View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 04:23 PM
They take care of these
things:
1) they never hack state assembly elections. who cares state
assemblies, supreme court, vigilance, CBI, ED everything is at central
hand. those r enough to secure their looting spree.
Re: Re: Re: Save
Indian democracy
by Vishvaksenah E (View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 04:24
PM
2) they dont hack the constituencies of eminent opposition leaders
who can win undoubtedly.
3) they dont do rampant hacking, c0ngress
only needs seats between 160 to 210 on its own to rule the nation. the
remaining seats wud come from its slave tentacles (parties).
Re: Re: Re: Re: Save Indian democracy
by Vishvaksenah E (View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 04:25 PM
In
2009 , Hariprasad- a techie from AP stole the EVMs from a polling booth
and demonstrated the hacking procedure of EVMs before media. But no
channel aired that news, Some papers published in inside pages. After
that the c0ngress started humiliating him by imposing numerous
non-bailable cases for stealing EVMs and even fake sexual harassment
case too.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Save Indian democracy
by Vishvaksenah E
(View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 04:26 PM
Thanks to EVMs, UPA 1 and 2
happened.
The real force who manipulates the_CONgress_ party are happy.
They care a hoot for the assembly results
Immediate solution
by v dev (View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 09:05 AM
is
to go back to paper ballot where VVPAT is not available. Cost is no
consideration when the nation’s is future is at stake. Hope a
respectable person approaches SC NOW to compel EC to use VVPAT machine
or paper ballots…
Then why EVM to be used
by sujit choudhury (View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 09:03 AM
If
evms can be hacked why it is used,no other country is using evms our ex
cm pk mahanta had proved that evms can be hacked yet EC has not taken
any action,this india,a loughing country
Hacking EVMs is
easy…
by Dhananjay Kumar (View MyPage) on Mar 15, 2014 06:58 AM |
Hide replies
It is just a toy with an interface which shows all the
party symbols, and produces a sound when you press a button (cast a
vote). The microcontroller, in an ideal case, runs a program which
identifies the input from user and take action accordingly. In a hacked
EVM, the interface, producing sound and all works fine, except for the
action part which is essentially hidden from public.
The best case to
prove the hacking is how P Chidambram won by 1000 votes after losing by
big margin. There simply cannot be a counting mistake by an electronic
voting machine. In an ideal scenario, it will produce the same count
whether you do it 100 or 1000 times. But the second time, the
manipulated EMVs were used to count, to win him the MP seat.
http://news.yahoo.com/scant-aid-low-caste-villagers-hit-south-india-134924533.html
Scant aid for low-caste villagers hit by south India floods: charities
By Nita Bhalla and Sandhya Ravishankar
CHENNAI/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of poor
lower-caste families who lost their homes and jobs after devastating
floods swept southern India have been neglected by government relief
efforts, a survey conducted by two charities has found.
About 280 people have died and more than 400,000 have been
displaced across Tamil Nadu state since torrential rains began in early
November, swelling rivers and reservoirs and inundating the state
capital Chennai and neighboring coastal districts.
A study of the first days of the floods found that
although low-caste or “SC/STs” families were the group worst hit by the
floods, few had received any help, said National Dalit Watch and Social
Awareness Society for Youth – Tamil Nadu.
“No relief
has reached the community properly till now. During the distribution of
food relief there has been priority to the families having concrete
houses, people having connections with leaders of villages,” the report
said.
“Relief camps and medical facilities have been
organized far away from the villages, or are in dominant caste areas
which SC/ST people cannot access due to the lack of transport and fear
of discrimination and violence,” it added.
Government officials in Cuddalore district said the report was incorrect
and helping marginalized SC/ST communities was considered a priority
after a disaster.
“In times of inundation, SC/ST colonies are usually more affected
since they are in low-lying areas,” Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Cuddalore’s
Monitoring Officer for Disaster Relief, told the Thomson Reuters
Foundation.
“The state government is very sensitive
to the needs of SC/STs. For them, we have built a temporary shelter in
record time.”
The rains, the heaviest in a century,
hit Chennai last week, putting some areas under eight feet (2.5 meters)
of water, trapping people on rooftops with no power or communications.
The rains have now stopped, water levels are dropping, and
the government has set up relief camps across Tamil Nadu. Dry food and
tarpaulins are being distributed, but some interior areas have been
difficult to reach due to damaged roads.
The survey
polled 1,500 families in Cuddalore district, more than 40 percent of
them Dalits, from Nov. 19 to 21. It found that 95 percent of damaged
houses, 92 percent of livestock lost and 86 percent of crops lost
belonged to SC/STs.
Caste-based discrimination was
banned in India in 1955, but centuries-old attitudes persist in many
parts of the country and low-caste Indians still face prejudice in every
sector.
Aid workers say that in times of flood or
drought, many SC/STs do not get the same access as higher-caste Indians
to emergency aid such as clean water, dry food rations or shelter.
In most SC/ST villages surveyed in Cuddalore’s
Parangipettai and Bhuvanagiri blocks there was no clean drinking water,
and in some areas dominant castes had refused to share their water
sources with SC/STs, the survey showed. Most SC/ST villages also lack
medical services, it added.
But government officials said the bulk of the relief budget
had been spent on helping rebuild and repair over 70,000 damaged homes
of SC/STs.
“District and state government are aware and make conscious efforts to
ensure that the poor and SC/STs are given the greatest care,” said
Bedi.
(Reporting by Nita Bhalla in New Delhi and Sandhya Ravishankar in
Chennai, writing by Nita Bhalla, editing by Tim Pearce. Please credit
the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters,
that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, corruption
and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
the political parties are representatives of their own caste people and
are just for publicity. They are conscious about their white dress and
pose for the media while providing relief and go on blaming their
opponent caste party. AIADMK does everything in the name of amma as if
she is the owner of TN as present CM .DMK does it in the name of
Kalingar projecting his son Stallin as next CM, Ramadoass as his son as
next CM, Vijaykant as if he will be the next CM same case with Vaiko
Just for publicity. But all of them neglect the deserving SC/ST who are
badly affected by the disaster. All these leaders have been fooling the
people with the help of the Tinsel world. The poor have remained poor
and these leaders have become richer and richer. Only the Bahujan Samaj
Party have gone to help these helpless people. Unless they come to power
the wealth of the country will not be distributed proportionally among
all societies as enshrined in the Constitution.They are for Sarvajan
Hitaye Sarvajan Sukhe i.e., for peace, happiness and welfare of all
societies. Till such time these
caste leaders will have their hay days and continue to ruin the nation.
