An EVM can record a maximum of 3, votes. The total number of electors in a polling station does not usually exceed 1,, hence the capacity of an EVM is more than sufficient. What is the maximum number of candidates which EVMs can cater to? The correct answer is B. An EVM can cater to a maximum of 64 candidates. There is a provision for 16 candidates in a Balloting Unit. If the total number of candidates exceeds 16, a second Balloting Unit can be linked parallel to the first Balloting Unit. Similarly, if the total number of candidates exceeds 32, a third Balloting Unit can be attached and if the total number of candidates exceeds 48, a fourth Balloting Unit can be attached to cater to a maximum of 64 candidates.
Who manufactures the EVMs? It has also helped in creating a vast pool of election officials well versed in its use. In its evolution, the Commission has issued series of instructions, frequently asked questions, and technical guidelines. During this period a number of judicial pronouncements has also helped in making the EVMs an integral component of our electoral system. In a meeting of all political parties held on 4th October, , the parties expressed satisfaction with the EVM but some parties requested the Commission to consider introducing Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail for further transparency and verifiability in poll process.
All stake holders including senior leaders of political parties and civil society members participated and witnessed enthusiastically in the field trial. The same was again subjected to 2nd field trial in the said five locations in July-August In the meeting of the Technical Expert Committee held on Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail is an independent system attached with the Electronic Voting Machines that allows the voters to verify that their votes are cast as intended.
When a vote is cast, a slip is printed on the VVPAT printer containing the serial number, name and symbol of the candidate and remains exposed through a transparent window for 7 seconds.
Technical Security of EVM. The Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering election processes in India. Amid persisting doubts about the efficacy of EVMs, the government constituted an Electoral Reforms Committee ERC in February that consisted of representatives from several national and state level political parties.
The committee recommended that the EVMs be evaluated by a team of technical experts. In its April report, the expert committee unanimously recommended the use of EVMs, terming them technically sound, secure and transparent. In , all by-elections and state elections were held using EVMs.
The Election Commission has so far used EVMs in conducting over assembly and three Lok Sabha elections, according to official data. India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises.
Only four of them use it nationwide. While 11 use EVMs in some parts, pilots projects are on in five nations. Three nations have discontinued it while 11, which ran pilots, decided against EVMs.
A few countries which have discontinued the use of EVMs are — Kazakhstan in , in Finland the system trialled in but a review in concluded against internet voting stating that risks outweighed benefits, Germany where the system trialled in , but the court found it unconstitutional in Ireland scrapped the system in , Netherlands discontinued it in , Norway trialled in , Romania trialled it for a limited period in , and EVMs were used only for central counting of ballots in Scotland from In the Netherlands, a pressure group called "We Don't Trust Voting Computers" demonstrated security flaws in voting machines in After an enquiry committee's report to Parliament, the regulation for electronic voting was withdrawn in In , a German court banned EVMs.
The ruling was interpreted to mean that the court concluded that a computer-based system of voting required knowledge of programming that citizens did not have and, hence, the system was 'opaque', reports said. For a country like India which is the world's largest democracy questions were raised when the EC decided to introduce the EVM system. Demand to abandon the use of the electronic voting machine was raised by BJP after their electoral defeat in The critics of EVM demanded the bringing back the ballot paper after the elections.
The next spate of demands came in when several TV channels ran source-based news that the EC was planning to hold a week or day-long challenge where EVMs would be deployed at its headquarters in New Delhi and all doubters will be given an opportunity to hack the machines.
Questioning the source-based stories, Kejriwal posted several tweets later on. How credible are they? Or is it just a plant? Has anyone actually seen any official statement from CEC? Am trying to get it since evening.
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