Evm: Dangers Of Trusting Them Too Much

[Capt M Kumar]

इन मशीनों के साथ आसानी से छेड़छाड़ किए जाने और
इन्हें भी पढ़ें

* वरुण की जेड सिक्यूरिटी की अपील सरकार ने ठुकराई

* शूटरों की गिरफ्तारी के बाद वरुण की सुरक्षा बढ़ाने मांग

* वरुण गांधी के निर्वाचन को कोर्ट में चुनौती

* वरुण के भाषण पर असमंजस

* सीडी से नहीं हुई छेड़छाड़, आवाज वरुण की ही?

और स्टोरीज़ पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें
वोटिंग के दौरान गड़बड़ी होने का तर्क देते हुए सुप्रीम कोर्ट सहित मद्रास हाई कोर्ट, बॉम्बे हाई कोर्ट और मध्य प्रदेश हाई कोर्ट में याचिकाएं डाली गई थीं। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने ऐसी एक याचिका का निपटान करते हुए याचिकाकर्ताओं को निर्देश दिया कि वह चुनाव आयोग के पास जाकर अपनी शंकाएं दूर करें। आयोग ने इसी पृष्ठभूमि में सभी याचिकाकर्ताओं व संदेह जताने वाले राजनीतिक दलों को अपनी शंकाएं इंजीनियरों की उपस्थिति में जाहिर करने के लिए आमंत्रित किया है।

http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/art...846238.cms

min translation:
EC has invited all concerned parties opposing the use of EVMs to prove their view point in front of manufacturers and their engineers.

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b> ईवीएम से छेड़छाड़ करके दिखाओ</b>
नई दिल्ली, जागरण ब्यूरो : इलेक्ट्रानिक वोटिंग मशीन (ईवीएम) के उपयोग को लेकर पिछले दिनों राजनीतिक दलों व कुछ दूसरे संगठनों की ओर से जताई जा रही आशंकाओं के बीच चुनाव आयोग ने उन्हें खुली चुनौती दे दी है। आयोग ने कहा है कि वे बताएं कि ईवीएम से छेड़छाड़ कैसे संभव है। आयोग अगले सप्ताह एक कार्यक्रम आयोजित कर रहा है। इसमें उन लोगों को आमंत्रित किया गया है जिन्होंने ईवीएम से छेड़छाड़ की आशंका जताते हुए इसके इस्तेमाल की मुखालफत की है। कोर्ट में इसकी शिकायत करने वाले व्यक्ति को आयोग ने कहा है कि वे मशीन से छेड़छाड़ कर दिखाएं। आयोग इस कार्यक्रम में यह बताएगा कि ईवीएम का इस्तेमाल पूरी तरह सुरक्षित है और इससे किसी तरह छेड़छाड़ नहीं की जा सकती। चुनाव में ईवीएम के इस्तेमाल पर पहले भी सवाल उठते रहे हैं, लेकिन इस बार कुछ राजनीतिक दलों ने भी अंगुली उठाई थी। राजद और लोजपा जैसे दलों के अलावा मुख्य विपक्षी पार्टी भाजपा ने भी ईवीएम में छेड़छाड़ की आशंका के मद्देनजर इनका इस्तेमाल रोकने की मांग उठाई थी। कुछ लोग यही मांग करते हुए अदालत की शरण में भी गए हुए हैं। आरोप लगाया गया कि मशीन के निर्माण के समय ही गलत तरीके से प्रोग्रामिंग कर दी जाती है, जिससे चुनाव में हेरफेर करना आसान हो जाता है। हाल में ऐसे ही एक मामले में सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने आवेदक को चुनाव आयोग के पास जाने की सलाह दी थी। इससे उत्साहित आयोग ने कोर्ट में शिकायत करने वालों को पत्र लिखकर कहा है कि वे आएं और बताएं कि मशीन से कैसे छेड़छाड़ की जा सकती है। आयोग ने नए सप्ताह में एक कार्यक्रम आयोजित करने का निर्णय लिया है। इसमें विशेषज्ञ ईवीएम की गुणवत्ता साबित करेंगे। कार्यक्रम में ईवीएम बनाने की प्रक्रिया भी समझाई जाएगी और बताया जाएगा कि भारत में उपयोग की जा रही ईवीएम दूसरे देशों के मुकाबले अलग हैं। दूसरे देशों में आपरेटिंग सिस्टम आधारित ईवीएम होती हैं, जबकि भारत में ईवीएम के अंदर उपयोग किए जाने वाले चिप पर दूसरी बार कोई प्रोग्राम नहीं डाला जा सकता है। लिहाजा छेड़छाड़ की कोई गुंजाइश ही नहीं बचती। विभिन्न राजनीतिक दल भी इलेक्ट्रोनिक वोटिंग मशीन पर सौ फीसदी विश्वास किए जाने को लेकर सशंकित हैं तथा उन्होंने इस संबंध में आवाज भी उठाना शुरू कर दिया। पिछले दिनों भाजपा नेता व पूर्व उपप्रधानमंत्री लालकृष्ण आडवाणी ने ईवीएम को लेकर अपने संदेह जाहिर किए तो पिछले कुछ दिनों से हरियाणा के इनेलो नेता व पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री चौटाला इसके <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> [QUOTE]

[Capt M Kumar]

EVMs reason for poll boycott: Jaya

Swati Das | Chennai

‘Machines are not tamper-proof’

It has been for a long time that AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa has been protesting against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and finally to drive home the argument that EVMs are not tamper-proof, her party has decided to boycott the August 18 by-election in five Assembly segments in Tamil Nadu.

Giving this clarification in a statement, attached with an article on how students of Rice University in Houston were learning hands-on just how easy it was to wreak havoc on software programmes used in the EVMs, Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said: “This should come as an eye-opener not only to the Election Commission of India and the judiciary but also to the voting public. In a democracy, every voter should know whether the vote cast has gone to the candidate or the party it was meant for. In the absence of such a certainty, the entire democratic process will be rendered a mockery. It is to ensure that democracy, in its true sense, is brought back that the AIADMK decided to boycott by-election to five Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu.”

http://www.dailypioneer.com/194075/EVMs-re...ycott-Jaya.html

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo--> The EC issued a detailed 2,000-word press statement late on Saturday night in which is assured the nation “… the commission once again completely reaffirms its faith in the infallibility of the EVMs. These are fully tamper-proof, as ever”.

It went on to say what has been demonstrated or claimed to have been demonstrated is on a privately assembled “look-alike of EVMs” and not the actual EVM’s owned by the commission”. The commission had invited the claimants so that there is not even an iota of doubt about any aspect of the EVM’s operation.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090809/main6.htm

eti siddham = Q.E.D.

End of discussion

[dhu]

Electronic Voting Machines are not fair, not transparent, have no voter verifiable audit trails

* * *
SPECIAL REPORT | Anupam Saraph and Madhav Nalapat (6 Aug. 2009)
DON’T BANK ON EVMS
Were the results of some Lok Sabha constituencies decided even before polling?

While tracking the lok Sabha elections of 2009 we stumbled upon startling versions of a file on polling information on the Election Commission of India’s [ECI] website.

We were tracking candidate information from an Excel spreadsheet titled “CandidateAC”, which was downloadable from the ECI’s website. The “CandidateAC” spreadsheet has a column for “votes polled”. As one would expect, this file when downloaded on 16 April [the first day of polling] and 24 April did not contain any information on votes polled. The file, when downloaded on 6 May, 7 May and 11 May, had coded the candidate name, party name and the number of votes polled [check footnotes 1-5]. The last phase of polling took place on 13 May and, officially, the votes were counted and results declared on 16 May.

This information could have changed in three possible ways:
1. Someone had hacked the file.
2. The data from various EVMs had been uploaded to the private database, and this was used to create the public file.
3. Someone who had access to the private database had actually added the data.

The first possibility is serious, as it implies that the databases hosted by the ECI are not secure and can be compromised. The second is a violation of the ECI’s rule that no counting was to begin till 16 May. It also constitutes a breach of security, as the EVMs were supposed to be in safe custody in a strong room of the DEO [district election officer]. The third would imply that the election results were being decided by whoever had access to the private database. If the results were to be read only from the EVMs, why was a coded spreadsheet prepared? How could this spreadsheet have the data on “votes polled”? Check the file downloaded on 15 May. Surprisingly, it does not have any information on “votes polled”. More surprisingly, after the media raised the issue on 15 July, the link to the file disappeared from the ECI website.

Sceptics might say that the coded data containing information on the votes polled was test or dummy data. If so, why was this test or dummy data prepared? What was being tested? How was this test data generated? What were the results of the tests? Why was the data generated after the first three phases of polling, but before the fourth and fifth phases? Why was the data removed when there was no intention of loading real data into the file? Why was the dummy data coded? How do 108 winning candidates in the dummy data match the eventual winners?

When the implications are so serious, why has the ECI not clarified the issue despite repeated requests, or constituted a panel to initiate reforms to make the process less vulnerable to such serious implications?

EVMs, like all technology, can be hacked. Hacked EVMs can have Trojan Horses or programs with instructions to receive a coded spreadsheet and translate them into results. It is possible for such spreadsheets to actually prepare a predetermined result. If your bank publishes your account details and claims it is dummy data, will you let them manage your money? To ensure that such manipulations do not ruin our democracy what must the EVMs have? They must be built to leave a transaction trail auditable by anyone in case there is a dispute. To create such transaction trails, every vote cast on every EVM must be distinguishable from votes that might be cast by a Trojan. In the Indian system, the electronic votes are not recorded to indicate that they belong to a particular voter. Imagine a situation where you cannot track the money in a bank account as money deposited through a source: Someone, by gaining access to your account on the bank’s computer deposits an unlimited amount of money or withdraws whatever you have deposited, but you do not have the resources to trace that money or have a third party audit the bank’s books. That is why leaving a transaction trail is important in any audit process.

Now imagine a candidate having an “account” in an EVM. Unless there is a mechanism to track every transaction as an inflow or outflow of votes from a legitimate source, there is no transaction trail and no ability to audit the actual vote balance in the candidate’s account. The votes cast by the voters are indistinguishable from those cast by a Trojan software or hardware. This is a very serious design lapse, and renders the EVMs completely useless for carrying out a costly democratic process. Will you trust your money with a bank that cannot track your account’s transactions?

The current EVM system banks on faith, not on the accounting of votes — the faith of the voter in the honesty, integrity and fidelity of the EVMs, the people involved and in the process. Will you switch to a faith-based banking system when it comes to your money?

If the system is not faith-based, why not simply give the EVMs — like telephones — to electronic voting booths [EVBs] — like the STD-ISD booths — for anyone to run? Give everyone a week to vote and then collect the votes as you would collect the coins?

The manuals prepared for the chief election officer, district election officer, observers, polling agents, presiding officers, returning officers, candidates and counting agents show that the ECI gives little focus on building trustworthy databases, or on building good accounting practices and clean auditable systems that anyone other than they themselves can audit. Will the RBI permit financial institutions that cannot maintain basic records, or cannot be audited by third parties, to function?

Imagine a situation where you deposit your money in your account without getting any acknowledgement of your transaction specifying your account. In case there is a dispute, will you be able to claim that you had deposited the money into that account? When you deposit a vote for your candidate, do you get any acknowledgement about your deposit that you can use in a dispute? Is there any way that you can check later that your vote has been counted? Will you trust your money with a bank that does not give you a passbook or a statement of your deposits and withdrawals? What makes you trust the EVM with your liberty, and with your money that funds these elections? Finally, imagine a situation where your bank issues statements in which the number of depositors varies from statement to statement, as well as the deposits made. How comfortable does that make you about your bank?

Managing the democratic process of voting requires a database of voters, of candidates, constituencies and of votes deposited in a candidate’s account by legitimate voters. The voters’ banker, the ECI, has failed not just to track its depositors — the voters — but also how many votes they have deposited. Public databases maintained by the ECI indicate that the elections of 2009 had 716,676,063 or 714,103,070 or 713,776,525 voters [check footnotes 6-8]. As for the number of votes polled in these elections, the figure was either 417,158,644 or 417,156,922 [check footnotes 9-10]. Evidently, there is much the ECI can do to reform its technology [¼] Dr Anupam Saraph, an IT and governance expert, has created the world’s first governance wiki at giki.wikia.com Professor Madhav Nalapat holds the UNESCO Peace Chair and is Director of the Department of Geopolitics at Manipal University

FOOTNOTES
1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15676183/Candi...downloaded on 16 April 2009
2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15676724/Candida...1.xlsdownloaded on 24 April 2009
3. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15676840/Candida...2.xlsdownloaded on 6 May 2009
4. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15676045/Candida...4.xlsdownloaded on 7 May 2009
5. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15676489/Candida...5.xlsdownloaded on 11 May 2009
6. 716,676,063 according to http://eci.nic.in/Analysis/ Voter Turnout
7. 714,103,070 according to http://eci.nic.in/eroll&epic/ERoll2009.pdf
8. 713,776,525 according to http://eci.nic.in/Analysis/ Electors Information
9. 417,158,644 according to http://eci.nic.in/Analysis/ Voter Turnout
10. 417,156,922 according to http://eci.nic.in/Analysis/ All Candidates Votes Polled

http://www.covertmagazine.com/anupham.htm

http://sites.google.com/site/hindunew/elec...voting-machines

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&:whistle--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='whistle.gif' /><!--endemo--> The best solution is a combination of technology and paper. Most of our population will never ever be comfortable with technology. So no matter what security experts may say about the security of EVMs, the vast majority of our citizens will have a lingering doubt. Hence, we believe that each time we cast our vote, a small printer connected to the EVM also prints out the vote, not the name of the candidate but the number of the candidate in different languages. This would make the design of the system much simpler as the EVM per se does not know the name of the candidate. The person who is voting can obtain a physical confirmation that the machine printed the number of the button he or she pressed and then this ballot paper can be placed in the ballot box and sealed. A physical counting of votes can only be ordered by a court of law. This process may increase the cost of the election process, waste more paper, be environment unfriendly but we believe it will set all nay sayers to rest. We will get the best of both worlds. This is why no country in the world relies on just an electronic system simply because people do not believe that the EVM got their vote right.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/evms-the...lation/512964/0

[Guest]

Tampering EVMs – Some references
EVM Tampering

[Guest]

EVM tampering in Arunachal elections

<b>Watch the youtube video below</b>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F0UHrBWaHM...layer_embedded#


Repoll was ordered in two polling stations in otherwise peaceful Ziro. Reason - tampering of electronic voting machine which was started in India with much fanfare some years back.
The demonstrated tampering on a 1min. 18 sec video, is simple and dramatic. The sequence in which the four candidates were listed on EC documents were modified on the EVM polling unit. BJP-TMC candidates sequence was switched; INC-NCP candidates sequence was switched. IntenT? Simply to register BJP votes to TMC and vice-versa and INC Votes to NCP and vice-versa.

Did a similar switch take place during the Lok Sabha Elections in, say, select 100+ constituencies? If so, the EC should be made accountable in HC/SC to stop using the EVMs in future polls, until a proper audit trail is put in place and controls as in the case of ATMs of Banks.

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2010/02/i...3-feb.html

Intl. Conf. on EVMs at IIT, Chennai, 13 Feb. 2010, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

feb 8th, 2010



see the full details of various events at http://saveindiandemocracy.wordpress.com/conferences/



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New Delhi (Feb 1, 2010): The event organized by Save Indian Democracy is at IIT Chennai, Central Lecture Theater (CLT) from 6:30PM to 8:30PM.



International experts who are pioneers and have significantly altered the course of usage of EVM's in their countries are invited to India by Center for National Renaissance. Details of experts from Netherlands, Germany, United States drawn from legal, political and academic arenas in their countries is given below. (Detailed bio-data is given at the end).



[...]

Rest at link.

[ramana]

Pioneer Op-ed, 23 Feb 2010



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There’s a Trojan in the EVM!



A Surya Prakash



The debate on the integrity of the electoral process when electronic voting machines are used to cast votes got a fillip recently when a group of concerned citizens organised workshops in New Delhi and Chennai and invited some international experts who have played a part in the abolition of electronic voting in some countries of Europe and in a majority of the States in the US.



Among these experts was Mr Rop Gonggrijp, a computer hacker from the Netherlands who hacked a machine on a live television show and became instrumental in the banning of EVMs in his country; Mr Alex Halderman, professor of computer science at the University of Michigan and an authority on electronic voting security; and, Mr Till Jaeger, the attorney who argued against the use of EVMs before the German Federal Constitutional Court leading to the order banning of these machines in Germany. The Indian viewpoint on the vulnerability of EVMs was offered by Mr Hari Prasad, a noted ‘hactivist’ from Hyderabad, who first raised the red flag about the integrity of the EVM-based election process.



According to Mr Gonggrijp and Mr Halderman, EVMs can be tampered with either at the manufacturing stage or when they are stored in State capitals for deployment in elections or at the polling booths. They are convinced that Indian EVMs are no different from those that were deployed in the Netherlands, Germany or Ireland, before they were discarded in those countries. One of the ways to rig an election is to introduce a Trojan in the display section of the control unit. This chip would give ‘fixed’ results on the EVM screen. In other words, whatever the voters’ preference, the control unit would display numbers as per the hacker’s plan.



Mr Gonggrijp is a prominent campaigner for election transparency and verifiability, and his technical opinion appears to have clinched the issue against electronic voting in Germany as well. “When the vote count happens inside a machine and there is no way in which the result can be cross-checked, the election ceases to be transparent,” he says. The lack of transparency appears to be the Achilles heel of electronic voting. Nobody knows what goes on inside these machines. This is the point on which the German Constitutional Court has held the deployment of EVMs as un-constitutional. It says the Constitution emphasises the public nature of elections and requires all essential steps to be open to public scrutiny.



While all these experts are categorical in their rejection of electronic voting devices, EVMs enjoy a great deal of credibility and public trust in India. This is so because the campaign about the unreliability of these machines is yet to get off the ground. However, politicians of various hues appear to be wary of these machines and have even accused rivals of ‘manipulating’ them, albeit without a shred of evidence to establish mischief.



However, there are those like Mr Hari Prasad who have been demanding that the Election Commission offer opportunities for them to demonstrate the vulnerability of EVMs. The EC initially went along with the idea but developed cold feet and abruptly stopped one such exercise by Mr Prasad and his colleagues last September. Why did the EC back out?



Two other Indians who have plunged into this campaign are Mr Subramanian Swamy, whose petition against EVMs is currently before the Delhi High Court, and Mr GVL Narasimha Rao, election analyst and author of Democracy at Risk — Can We Trust Our Electronic Voting Machines?. This book outlines the story of EVMs in India, Europe and the US, and describes how the non-response of the EC to questions raised by Mr Gonggrijp and Mr Hari Prasad has contributed in no small measure to the growing concern in political parties about the reliability of voting machines.



According to Mr Rao, among those who have raised doubts about EVMs are Mr LK Advani, leader of the BJP, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister and Congress leader who attributed his party’s defeat in Odisha last year to “manipulation” of EVMs, Mr Prakash Karat, general secretary of the CPI(M), Mr Sharad Yadav, president of the JD(U), Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, president of the SP, Ms Mamata Bannerjee, president of Trinamool Congress, Mr Chandrababu Naidu, leader of the Telugu Desam, Ms Jayalalithaa, leader of the AIADMK, and leaders of the Pattali Makkal Katchi. One look at this list and you realise that there is a doubting Thomas everywhere — in every one of the three known national coalitions and in different regions.



Mr Karat has formally written to the EC. He has said there are several questions in regard to the reliability of EVMs. Among them are: Possibility of incorporating a Trojan in the chip; possibility of manipulation of the chip at the manufacturing stage; lack of EC control over the technical process; and lack of third party inspection. He has said the EC must control the manufacture of EVMs, allow third party inspection and randomly shift EVMs from State to State.



After talking to experts, Mr Rao lists eight situations in which EVMs can be rigged. The EC has sought to counter these arguments by saying that the Indian EVMs are standalone machines which are not part of any network. Therefore, any surmise based on operating system based EVMs would be completely erroneous.



These arguments have been countered by Mr Ulrich Wiesner, a physicist and software engineer, who was the petitioner before the Constitutional Court in Germany. In a statement that is part of the rejoinder affidavit filed by Mr Swamy in the Delhi High Court, Mr Wiesner has said that EVMs in the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland were also standalone machines with no connection to the Internet. He says, “It is common sense that someone who has sufficient access to open the machines and replace the software or hardware can implement virtually any functionality … that would not be spotted by tests.”



The EC is a public body with a fat budget. If it is to command the confidence of all stake-holders in the democratic process, it must function in a transparent manner and answer the questions raised by these citizens and experts. The inflexible and non-transparent attitude of the commission is lending credence to the argument that possibly it has no answers or, worse, it has something to hide.

To me the most intriguing part is all the parties complain of EVM fraud. If so who accomplishes the fraud- the chip maker?

[ajay jagga]

‘EVMs illegally being used for a decade’- AJAY JAGGA, Lawyer-India



Sanjay Sharma, TNN, Feb 22, 2010, 03.44am IST

CHANDIGARH: The electronic voting machines (EVMs) are being used in violation of the Information Technology Act 2000, a research paper has revealed.



Author of the research paper, advocate Ajay Jagga, told The Times of India, on Sunday that as per IT Act, 2000, a verifiable audit trail has to be provided in case of any electronic record, which is now admissible as evidence as per Evidence Act but in case of electronic voting, the voter does not get any receipt with regard to his voting.



The research paper recently attracted the attention of experts when a conference on “EVMs: How trustworthy?” in Chennai passed a unanimous resolution on February 13 asking Jagga to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) for bringing the electronic voting procedure in tune with IT Act, 2000.



Jagga said he would soon approach ECI seeking formation of legal committee to remove the illegality or will knock the doors of court.



The lawyer said, “Unless the voter gets a receipt like the one we get in ATM or after the use of debit or credit cards, all electronic transactions including a vote, are illegal.” What is the evidence that the vote cast has really been recorded and that it has been recorded in the manner the voter intended, he asked.



For the purpose and to protect the secrecy of ballot, all such receipts, after the voter has checked his transaction, should be put in a box which should remain with ECI to be produced as evidence in case of a dispute, he said. The government amended the relevant laws in 1989 to equate EVM with ballot and ballot box to facilitate transition from ballot paper to EVM but the IT Act 2000 created a new complication that has to be immediately resolved in the interest of fairness of things, Jagga pointed out.



The lawyer also proved that the machine can be tampered with which has been accepted by the government itself in its letter to withdraw patent applications filed by Electronics Corporation of India and Bharat Electronics Ltd, makers of the machine. The PSUs withdrew their patent applications on the ground that the machine may not be tamper-proof, he said, adding that America and Germany had to return to ballot paper after their machines were found wanting.



http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/...601297.cms



Linked on USA Today 23 Feb. 2010

[Capt M Kumar]

Renowned psephologist (election analyst) GVL Narasimha Rao has written

an excellent book "Democracy at Risk", about rigging via electronic

voting machines. This book can now be downloaded from

http://www.indianevm.com/book_democracy_...k_2010.pdf

[Capt M Kumar]

Here is precise and concise version of the same, I guess?:

http://indiaevm.org/evm_tr2010.pdf

[Husky]

Set of articles on why EVMs are insecure and ought to be scrapped



1. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2010/05/i...order.html

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Indian EVMs insecure. Scrap them. Order fresh Lok Sabha elections

may 1st, 2010



the 'decent' manmohan singh and company stole the 2009 election.



this is fascism in action.



i believe this is how demagogues have come to power in the past (example hitler).



those who allowed this to happen are now suffering the consequences, as a. raja and others sell the country down the river.



they are kept misinformed and ignorant by the purchased media.

Actual articles are at the link.



About the line "i believe this is how demagogues have come to power in the past (example hitler)."

Hitler was willingly *voted* in: he got the nation's catholics to vote for him, because the catholic church told them to vote unanimously for the NSDAP - the nazi party. Hitler was Vatican's best buddy after all, complete with mutually-benefitting treaty and all.



http://freetruth.50webs.org/C2c.htm#Ratzinger

Another significant instance of a Pope intervening in the politics of another country and its governance:

In the 1930s, Pacelli [to become Pope Pius XII] and his associates negotiated with the Nazis to form a contract which got signed in 1933 as the Reich Concordat with the approval of the Pope [Pius XI]. Note that the Catholic hierarchy believes in the infallibility of Popes in matters of faith and morals (ever since the First Vatican Council of 1870). This Concordat with its Papal infallible authority had arguably neutralized the potential of 23 million Catholics to protest and resist and which helped Hitler into legal dictatorship. [Cornwell, p. 4]

From: Christianity in Europe during WWII, referring to Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell, himself a Catholic.

German Catholics in politics joined Hitler's fascist government en-masse, as it had been given Papal approval through the Concordat:

In the end, Hitler insisted that his signature on the concordat would depend on the [Catholic political party] Center Party's voting for the Enabling Act, the legislation that was to give him dictatorial powers. ...Next, Hitler insisted on the "voluntary" disbanding of the Center Party, the last truly parliamentary force in Germany. Again, Pacelli was the prime mover in this tragic Catholic surrender. The fact that the party voluntarily disbanded itself, rather than go down fighting, had a profound psychological effect, depriving Germany of the last democratic focus of potential noncompliance and resistance: In the political vacuum created by its surrender, Catholics in the millions joined the Nazi Party, believing that it had the support of the Pope. The German bishops capitulated to Pacelli's policy of centralization, and German Catholic democrats found themselves politically leaderless.

-- Hitler's Pope, John Cornwell

The pope's emissary in Germany, Papal Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, helped to demolish the young Weimar republic. After the liberal democratic Catholic leader Erzberger had been assassinated, the Pope's exertions became directed to the support of all Right-Wing movements in Germany, via the influence of the Catholic Centre Party. On march 23, 1933, the German Reichstag met, and the Catholic Party, led by its Catholic leaders, former chancellor Brüning and prelate Mgr. Kaas, personal friend of Pacelli, voted for Catholic Hitler. After this, having received, directly from the Vatican, orders to disband, the Catholic Party dissolved. Preached Pacelli to the German Catholics:

"...it is all the more necessary that the Catholics, deprived of diplomatic representation, should find in the diplomatic pacts between the Holy See and the National Socialist Government guarantees which can assure them ... the maintenance of their position in the life of the nation."

Mgr. Kaas, leader of the dissolved Catholic Party, put it even more bluntly: Catholics must support Hitler, he said. They should not have any fears about it. For Hitler's ideals were "noble ideals." Furthermore, "Hitler knows well how to guide the ship." In this way the first successful democracy on German soil had been destroyed.

Link http://web.archive.org/web/2003021106003...shame.html

2. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2010/05/e...video.html

EVM tampering video

may 3rd, 2010



strange, isn't it, how the universe seems to conspire to make rahul the new PM?



he must be truly blessed, by the non-existent jesus, or at least by the very existent ratzy.



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXvaLvhrX5o



Wow! I tell you, if we find out the truth about the last 2 elecctions, it might as well be stranger than the proverbial fiction.

Seems like everything in the last 15 years has happened to make Rahul baba the PM in 2014. Scindia, Rajesh Pilot, YSR dead. EVMs introduced along with a friendly EC. Voila!!

[color="#800080"](There are many more deaths. When listed, it all sounds as 'miraculous' as how Constantine got into power.

A miracle cooked up by Santa Antonia and the Vatican, the way Santa Helena and church leaders worked the miracle of Constantine. The way Constantine and the church gang pre-planned the victories to follow the fishy "Labarum" fiction and, well, everything. Of all the events of Constantine's sociopathic nature.

Plus American/western media had earlier written about the "crown-prince" Raoul - sounds like they were attempting a prediction. Must be their miraculous crystal ball telling them he's won already, or as good as. The US still writes on how Raoul's oh-so-popular with the Indian crowd and is the favourite to win - an attempt to make it all sound inevitable. For a future election - i.e. one that has yet to take place - and whose outcome is naturally unknown at this stage, America sure appears to be all certain about the result 'in advance'. At the very least, one concludes that the US is not very good at hiding its partiality concerning who it thinks should sit on India's throne.)[/color]



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- There's a reason it's a good thing to study history: because christianism likes repeating its success stories. And christianism knows that the less a new unsuspecting heathen populace knows about christianism's operating pattern, the better it is for christianism's chance of success.



- There's a reason for why that converted Chinese Empress baptised her son Constantine and renamed herself as Helena.

http://freetruth.50webs.org/A4c.htm

From Chapter 17 - Early History of Catholic Power in Siam and China, of the book Vietnam: Why did we go? by Avro Manhattan:

[...]

Chinese Empress renames herself Helena and baptises her son Constantine



The potential appeared unlimited. The Chinese Empress had become a pliable tool in the hands of the Jesuits, who manipulated her to implant Catholic influence at all levels. Her piety had turned into a personal zeal to serve the Catholic Church in everything. She even changed her Chinese name into that of the Empress Helena after the Roman Empress, mother of Constantine, who had given freedom to Christianity in the Roman Empire. Indeed, not content with that, she baptized her son with the name of Constantine to indicate the role which the boy was intended to play in the future conversion of Buddhist China for the Catholic Church.

[ramana]

Politics party site, an INC supporter is also calling for EVM paper trail. There ae constant suprises even to INC leadership indicating the EC is playing God.



EC = babudom.

[Capt M Kumar]

http://www.indiatimes.com/photostory/5954244.cms

American scientists 'hack' into Indian voting machines

Indian electronic voting machines (EVMs) - considered to be among the world's most tamperproof - can be hacked, American scientists claim. Researchers at the University of Michigan connected a home-made device to a voting machine and successfully changed results by sending text messages from a mobile.

[Capt M Kumar]

“I would not like to name the private manufacturers. But one of them is behind the latest move,” he said to a question on a recent research by a professor of the University of Michigan and his students on an EVM look-alike, which could be wirelessly hacked.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/06/stories/...900100.htm

Mr. Chawla said the machines used in the study were not originals. — PTI

[Capt M Kumar]

You say that EVMs can actually be tampered with



Yes. It is a machine and any machine can be tampered with. No machine is foolproof. India is land with a great deal of corruption. Politicians can lay their hands on some experts and get a machine tampered with. We have conducted a lot of study into this and realised that is very easy to manipulate the election process in India.



But the general argument is that the EVM has done away with booth capturing.



I agree. But then if there is booth capturing, one is aware that something of this sort has happened and action can initiated. Electronic tampering can be done on a large scale and no one ever comes to know about it. This is what we are trying to demonstrate. There is absolutely no transparency when it comes to EVMs. http://news.rediff.com/interview/2010/au...-thief.htm

[ramana]

EVM Tampering paper



www.indiaevm.org/evm_tr2010.pdf

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