“EVM fixing theory and Lok Sabha elections: Reality vs Rhetoric”, Organiser, June 16, 2024:
“The fallibility or otherwise of the EVMs (electronic voting machines) has been proven incontrovertibly and so many times, in favour of the EVMs, that one would think that there need not be any controversy whatsoever on their reliability. And yet, as we approach June 4, the day results for the 2024 General Elections would be announced, the manufactured buzz around the fixing EVMs continues unabate.
The Supreme Court recently dealt with the EVMs and after a detailed hearing ruled unambiguously in favour of the infallibility of the process. Apart from the technical safeguards in the EVM unit itself, the process involved in the entire conduct of elections, is what makes the whole EVM fixing theory so laughable. Let us briefly understand the process.
The EVM Unit and How It Works.
The EVM consists of three units, namely, the ballot unit, the control unit, and the VVPAT. The ballot unit, acting as a keyboard or a keypad consists of 16 keys/buttons one of which the voter has to press when he exercises his choice to vote for any candidate. The keys are political party and candidate agnostic. The serial numbers, names of the candidates and the symbols of the political parties/candidates are physically pasted on the ballot unit so as to enable the voter to identify the corresponding key/button against the respective candidate and the symbol…..”
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