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This comment is regarding “Supreme Court verdict on EVMs is disappointing by Madhav Deshpande in The Long Cable. I wish to suggest my views on his article because of more stress on its intricate coding etc.
The Supreme Court instructed the ECI to incorporate a system in EVM to get the symbol of the candidate printed so that voter could confirm about his vote. So there was no objection on the earlier system of recording of vote! There is no need to change the earlier system of voting through EVM.
In my opinion :- There is no need to change that system and introduce a VVPAT machine in between these two units such that vote is casted by VVPAT machine after recording. A parallel connection from the ballot unit to VVPAT is enough to get the symbol printed. So the voter is casting his vote directly to the control unit as well as VVPAT unit.
Another loophole in voting through EVM that I observed and informed to the ECI also is as below:-
The EVM machine is designed in such a way that it is only fit for use in election of any representatives of any village level government of up to 1000-1200 voters. In such cases the result needs to be declared then and there.
In all other elections the ballots of different booths were mixed so that no one can know about voting trend of each booth. This process of mixing votes of random booths before counting is missing if we use EVM for all other elections.
So in case of election of a candidate for parliament the candidate is contesting elections at say 500 booths and the winner who has won on most number of booths! Because tesultbof each booth is decalered separately!
This comment is regarding “Supreme Court verdict on EVMs is disappointing by Madhav Deshpande in The Long Cable. I wish to suggest my views on his article because of more stress on its intricate coding etc.
The Supreme Court instructed the ECI to incorporate a system in EVM to get the symbol of the candidate printed so that voter could confirm about his vote. So there was no objection on the earlier system of recording of vote! There is no need to change the earlier system of voting through EVM.
In my opinion :- There is no need to change that system and introduce a VVPAT machine in between these two units such that vote is casted by VVPAT machine after recording. A parallel connection from the ballot unit to VVPAT is enough to get the symbol printed. So the voter is casting his vote directly to the control unit as well as VVPAT unit.
Another loophole in voting through EVM that I observed and informed to the ECI also is as below:-
The EVM machine is designed in such a way that it is only fit for use in election of any representatives of any village level government of up to 1000-1200 voters. In such cases the result needs to be declared then and there.
In all other elections the ballots of different booths were mixed so that no one can know about voting trend of each booth. This process of mixing votes of random booths before counting is missing if we use EVM for all other elections.
So in case of election of a candidate for parliament the candidate is contesting elections at say 500 booths and the winner who has won on most number of booths! Because tesultbof each booth is decalered separately!