Explore why discrepancies between initial and final vote counts occur, the robust safeguards of the EVM system, and why calls for a return to paper ballots are misguided.
Tragedy is that despite transparency and meticulous safeguards used even by political parties , the adverse reporting actually begins with commencement of counting process. Reason for this is not hard to find. Political Parties find huge difference in the votes reported to have been polled worked on the assessment of their booth level workers, as against the final result. The functioning and doctoring of the EVM is alleged as an alibi , by the politicians , as their workers earlier on do indulge in glorification of their hard work and the expected outcomes, to create a false picture , more to justify the incurred expenditure . Every major party has active booth level workers who participate in each step of poll including the setting up of polling station, preparation and sealing of EVM , demonstration of functioning of EVM which is done by every presiding officers before the poll begins. Counting Officers also clearly inform the voter turn out and votes to be found in the machine. All seals of Control Unit are also seen and examined by the stakeholders and agents also sign the statements and tags.
In future whenever the EVM process is called to question on any ground especially on the functioning of EVM the documents related to the signatures put by these agents at the time of polling about the correctness of the process , should also be scrutinized
The natural corollary of this article is that the polling agents of each and every serious contender must not leave the polling station after the close of the poll without getting a signed copy of form 17 C.
Tragedy is that despite transparency and meticulous safeguards used even by political parties , the adverse reporting actually begins with commencement of counting process. Reason for this is not hard to find. Political Parties find huge difference in the votes reported to have been polled worked on the assessment of their booth level workers, as against the final result. The functioning and doctoring of the EVM is alleged as an alibi , by the politicians , as their workers earlier on do indulge in glorification of their hard work and the expected outcomes, to create a false picture , more to justify the incurred expenditure . Every major party has active booth level workers who participate in each step of poll including the setting up of polling station, preparation and sealing of EVM , demonstration of functioning of EVM which is done by every presiding officers before the poll begins. Counting Officers also clearly inform the voter turn out and votes to be found in the machine. All seals of Control Unit are also seen and examined by the stakeholders and agents also sign the statements and tags.
In future whenever the EVM process is called to question on any ground especially on the functioning of EVM the documents related to the signatures put by these agents at the time of polling about the correctness of the process , should also be scrutinized
Losers, tend to be poor losers.
Thanks Siddhu Sahab for this enlightening piece of work.
The natural corollary of this article is that the polling agents of each and every serious contender must not leave the polling station after the close of the poll without getting a signed copy of form 17 C.