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2019 general elections to have paper-trail electronic voting machines: Nasim Zaidi, CEC
NEW DELHI: Polling for 2019 general elections will be conducted through paper trail-based electronic voting machines to “enhance transparency”.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nasim Zaidi also said that voting through the internet is not on EC’s agenda in the near future though it is going to use information and communication technology (ICT) in a big way to reach the voters in the coming days.
“We have reached a stage where people are demanding hundred per cent deployment of paper audit trail machine. We have preserved the secrecy (in this system) as well. Our plan is that by 2019, the whole country will be covered by paper audit trail machines. The budget for this has been committed now,” Zaidi said while addressing an international seminar today.
The next general elections are due in 2019.
The paper audit trail machine or Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) was first introduced by the Commission in 2013 in order to enhance transparency in the polls process and increase electorate’s confidence that their vote goes without error to their desired candidate.
Once the vote is polled, the VVPAT linked EVM immediately takes a printout and it is preserved for later use to tally in case there is a dispute in in the final result.
Zaidi, who was speaking on the topic ‘Leveraging Technology for Transparent and Credible Elections’, stressed that secrecy of voters will be zealously preserved.
While the poll watchdog is taking full advantage of ICT for “recommending legislation” on providing electronic postal ballot facility to overseas Indian voters, the CEC said the same confidence cannot be expressed at present in the context of internet voting owing to security concerns.
For e-postal ballot, Zaidi said a “safe technology” has been developed and it is being “validated and tested currently….”
“Employing internet voting or online voting is not our horizon in the long term because it requires serious consideration of challenges posed by technology.
“We have to weigh between perceived and actual benefits versus perceived and actual challenges associated with online voting, security and secrecy of voting along with encryption and end-to-end verification of voters are some of the most important consideration in online voting,” he said.
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If the elections in UP 2017 Assembly has to be free and fair the CEC
must order for Paper Ballots instead of the fraud EVMs which was used in
2015 Lok Sabha elections which helped Murderer of democratic
institutions (Modi) to gobble the Master Key. Again the EC is conducted
with these fraud EVMs (Evil Voting Machines). The CEC had said that the
entire EVMs will be replaced only in 2019.
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EVMs have been under a cloud of suspicion over their alleged
tamparability and security problems during elections (especially after
the 2009 general elections).
After rulings of Delhi High Court,
Supreme Court and demands from various political parties, Election
Commission decided to introduce EVMs with Voter-verified paper audit
trail (VVPAT) system. The Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT)
system is introduced in 8 of 543 parliamentary constituencies as a pilot
project in Indian general election, 2014.
The CEC said that all the EVMs will be replaced in the 2019 general elections.
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It was also discussed in the meeting that voter verified paper audit
trail (VVPAT) will be used with EVMs in only one Assembly constituency
in each of the 75 districts. Priority will be given to that assembly
constituency in which district headquarters fall. “Due to shortage,
VVPAT is not being used in all segments.�Manufacturing of VVPAT is still
in process,” said Arun Singhal, chief electoral officer of UP. At
present, there are around 1.40 lakh polling booths in the state and
officials said, the number could increase in process of rationalisation,
the CEO said.�This is just to benefit the BJP which is gobbling the
MASTER KEY with these fraud EVMs. as predicted by Nostradamus! — Rightly
Predicted the Outcome of the May 2014 General Elections in Indool’s
Paradise. Hacke hay in May!
The trend continued and still continues in all the elections just in favour of Murderer of democratic institutions (Modi).
Ex CJI SADHASIVAM, shirked his duty & committed a grave error of
judgment by allowing in phased manner the Fraud Tamperable EVMs on the
request of ex CEC SAMPATH because of the 1600 crore cost to replace them
and dealt a fatal blow to the Country’s democracy.
Ex CEC
SAMPATH is number one enemy of Democracy, Liberty, Equality and
fraternity as enshrined in our Constitution for the welfare, happiness
and peace of Sarvajan Samaj.
In fact when the BJP was in opposition
its remotely controlling RSS favored paper ballots which is now silent
after gaining power through the very same fraud EVMs.
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RSS favours paper ballots, EVMs subjected to public scrutinyNew Delhi | Saturday, Aug 28 2010 IST
Joining the controversy regarding the reliablity of Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs) which have been questioned by political parties, the RSS
today asked the Election Commission (EC) to revert back to tried and
tested paper ballots and subject EVMs to public scrutiny whether these
gadgets are tamper proof. In an editorial titled ‘Can we trust our
EVMs?’, The Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece, noted it was a fact that till
date an absolutely tamper-proof machine had not been invented and
credibility of any system depends on ‘transparency, verifiability and
trustworthiness’ than on blind and atavistic faith in its infallibility.
The issue is not a ‘private affair’ and it involves the future of
India. Even if the EVMs were genuine, there was no reason for the EC to
be touchy about it, the paper commented. The Government and the EC can’t
impose EVMs as a fait accompli on Indian democracy as the only option
before the voter. There were flaws like booth capturing, rigging, bogus
voting, tampering and ballot paper snatching in the ballot paper system
of polling leading the country to switch over to the EVMs and all these
problems were relevant in EVMs too. Rigging was possible even at the
counting stage. What made the ballot papers voter-friendly was that all
aberrations were taking place before the public eye and hence open for
corrections whereas the manipulations in the EVMs is entirely in the
hands of powers that be and the political appointees manning the sytem,
the paper commented. The EVM has only one advantage — ’speed’ but that
advantage has been undermined by the staggered polls at times spread
over three to four months. ‘’This has already killed the fun of the
election process,'’ the paper noted. Of the dozen General Elections held
in the country, only two were through the EVMs and instead of
rationally addressing the doubts aired by reputed institutions and
experts the Government has resorted to silence its critics by
‘intimidation and arrests on false charges’, the paper observed,
recalling the arrest of Hyederabad-based technocrat Hari Prasad by the
Mumbai Police. Prasad’s research has proved that the EVMs were
‘vulnerable to fraud’. The authorities want to send a message that
anybody who challenges the EC runs the risk of persecution and
harassment, the RSS observed. Most countries around the world looked at
the EVMs with suspicion and countries like the Netherlands, Italy,
Germany and Ireland had all reverted back to paper ballots shunning EVMs
because they were ‘easy to falsify, risked eavesdropping and lacked
transparency’. Democracy is too precious to be handed over to whims or
an opaque establishment and network of unsafe gizmos. ‘’For the health
of Indian democracy it is better to return to tried and tested methods
or else elections in future can turn out to be a farce,'’ the editorial
said.– (UNI) — 28DI28.xml
If paper ballots are used as in the
last UP Panchayat elections Ms Mayawati’s BSP will win in thumping
majority. All other parties will not even get 1% votes.