Sunday, May 17, 2009

EVMs lack transparency?

a post that is doing the rounds -

Hi All,
The outcome of the election is completely shocking. And the more shocking news is the possibility of tampering of EVMs to manipulate the results through out india. And now there was a PIL filed in supreme court over the possibility of tampering of the EVMs by one of the technologists.
Please see the link below.
http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=45296
"Computer chips that control the EVMs can be easily programmed to do all kinds of improper manipulations. For example, after a certain number of people (perhaps hundreds) have voted, the rest of the votes may be channeled to a chosen candidate. This is just one among many mischievous tricks possible."
Also, a similar news appeared at a technical magazine called Linux Journal, citing that the hardware and the software used in the EVMs are not open sourced and hence the functioning of the EVMs are still not clear.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7561
More over, there is large possibility that the EVM can be programmed, reprogrammed at anytime of the election process, and the data can be altered even at the last minute.
In my home constituency Namakkal, a new caste based party was formed few months before, and this party contested in around 11 places. Since my constituency has majority population of that particular caste, the new party was expecting around 2 lakh votes. But after the results, they got only 52,000 votes, which is unbelievable.
They had successfully got the wide support of their caste but, in many of the booths, where their caste people were 90%, the votes polled to them was just 10-20 votes. This is yet again another proof of manipulation of results.
I believe, this has been done in most of the places in Tamilnadu. and it has been done in all other states.
IF we could analyse the statistics further, we can arrive at lot of things. For example, in Andhra pradesh, TDP got around 105 MLA seats, but only 9 MP seats. This is unbelievable. The 105 MLA seats convert around 15 MP seats.
Also in telengana, its hard to believe that congress won over TRS, TDP and the communists combine.
I request you all to pass on the information to the party people in your contacts.
Regards,

xxxxxx

2 comments:

Sunil Kosuru said...

The author of this article is a hypocrate, there is no sense in his logic of particular caste ppl polling 2 lakh votes..

Anonymous said...

I agree that the EVMs in AP were manipulated and rigged. Something was surely done in the software so that some percentage of votes polled to PRP had gone to Congress party.