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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Demo held to show EVM can be tampered with</b>
17/07/2009 01:12:21Â www.expressbuzz.com
HYDERABAD: Disputing with the Election Commissionâs claim that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were absolutely tamper-proof, members of Jana Chaitanya Vedika (JCV), along with technical experts, demonstrated today that the machines were tamperable. âThe EVMs currently used in elections are vulnerable and tamperable. It is possible to bring a particular political party into power by tampering the machines. Hence the need for the Election Commission to use ballot papers till the EVMs are made fool-proof.
Our intention, however, is not for having ballot system in the country,ââ they said.
NetIndia managing director and technical expert Hari K Prasad, along with JCV president V Lakshmana Reddy, vice-president VV Rao and others, at a press conference here, conducted a mock, actual and modified polling and counting of votes to prove that the EVMs could be tampered with and a favourable result to a particular political party ensured. In one of the demonstrations, they made Lok Satta Party, at the request of mediapersons, gain maximum number of votes vis-avis other parties.
The EVM showed the LSP getting nine votes though it was polled only three (of the total 21 votes).
Programme of a chip could be fixed or set at the time of machine preparation or before the beginning of counting.
Only individual machines (EVMs) could be tampered with but not all the machines at a time, they explained.
They demanded implementation of e-governance policy to ensure implementation of `open standardâ mechanism relating to EVMs. Besides, they also sought development of `verification toolâ to check the programme that drives the EVM.
âWe are ready to prove that the EVMs are tamperable if at all we get an access (to EVMs of Election Commission).
There are instances of EVM tampering in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and some other parts of the country in the recent elections. In fact, there was 100 percent polling recorded in some booths in Andhra Pradesh where the votes polled went in favour of one party. Several petitions were filed in various courts in the country on such instances,ââ they said.
Asked about the PIL filed in the Supreme Court, Hari Prasad said the case, which would come up for hearing next week, was filed on technology aspect.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> RAJENDRAN
18/07/2009 21:35:01Â <b>Questionable EVMs - A confessation by a Congress Leader
How to tamper with voting machines!</b>
Prabhjot Singh Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 11
Can electronic voting machines (EVMs) be tampered with?
âYesâ, says Mr Amarinder Singh, president, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, supporting his assertion by giving a demonstration of how an EVM with a cleverly programmed chip installed in it can transfer votes polled by one candidate to another leaving no remnants of the original voting pattern.
âConvinced that these EVMs can be manipulated, we are going to make a presentation to the Chief Election Commissioner, Dr Manohar Singh Gill, in New Delhi next week and request him to revert to the original system of voting using ballot papers. If the commission does not listen to us, we will have no choice but to knock at the door of the judiciary to get EVMs out of the elections,â asserts Mr Amarinder Singh.
Capt Amarinder Singh demonstrates how a âfudged electronic voting machineâ works. â A Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan
Mr Amarinder Singh carries a set of EVMs, including the control unit, which during elections remains with the presiding officer of a polling station, and gives a âdemonstration of how the programmed chip transfers the votes of one candidate to anotherâ.
âWe got suspicious about what we call âsophisticated booth capturingâ when we found that there was 129 per cent increase in the votebank of Akalis at Nawanshahr, 100 per cent at Sunam and now 65 per cent at Majitha. The ruling party did well wherever EVMs were used while at other places, we did well. This we did by analysing all elections in the state since 1997,â says the PPCC chief, admitting that âmy wife and Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar were elected to the Lok Sabha from constituencies where EVMs were used. But till that time, for the ruling Akali Dal, EVMs were something new and unique.
âBut once they put their electronics experts on the job, they could immediately find a solution. Whatever the Election Commission says about EVMs is not true. The mother b<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Other comments:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->saffronite
18/07/2009 19:32:50Â nation doomed forever?
Readers please go through the following links.
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/200...-with-evms.html
http://us.rediff.com/www/news/2009/jul/04w...2009-rigged.htm
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/05/cir...-was-there.html
http://www.groupsrv.com/religion/about310538.html
Vijayalakshmi
17/07/2009 06:36:03Â Demo held to show.......
There is no doubt that it was selective 'chawlaisation'
that enabled the Con party to capture power in 2009 and 2004.Inspite of the PIL filed by Dr.Satikant Chowdhury in 2004,no remedial action was taken by the Con party, nor did the BJP and other parties insist on it.The result was the repeat of 2004 in 2009!The Central leadership of the BJP is not assertive enough.That is why the Con party is able to get away with
anything!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Demo held to show EVM can be tampered with</b>
17/07/2009 01:12:21Â www.expressbuzz.com
HYDERABAD: Disputing with the Election Commissionâs claim that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were absolutely tamper-proof, members of Jana Chaitanya Vedika (JCV), along with technical experts, demonstrated today that the machines were tamperable. âThe EVMs currently used in elections are vulnerable and tamperable. It is possible to bring a particular political party into power by tampering the machines. Hence the need for the Election Commission to use ballot papers till the EVMs are made fool-proof.
Our intention, however, is not for having ballot system in the country,ââ they said.
NetIndia managing director and technical expert Hari K Prasad, along with JCV president V Lakshmana Reddy, vice-president VV Rao and others, at a press conference here, conducted a mock, actual and modified polling and counting of votes to prove that the EVMs could be tampered with and a favourable result to a particular political party ensured. In one of the demonstrations, they made Lok Satta Party, at the request of mediapersons, gain maximum number of votes vis-avis other parties.
The EVM showed the LSP getting nine votes though it was polled only three (of the total 21 votes).
Programme of a chip could be fixed or set at the time of machine preparation or before the beginning of counting.
Only individual machines (EVMs) could be tampered with but not all the machines at a time, they explained.
They demanded implementation of e-governance policy to ensure implementation of `open standardâ mechanism relating to EVMs. Besides, they also sought development of `verification toolâ to check the programme that drives the EVM.
âWe are ready to prove that the EVMs are tamperable if at all we get an access (to EVMs of Election Commission).
There are instances of EVM tampering in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and some other parts of the country in the recent elections. In fact, there was 100 percent polling recorded in some booths in Andhra Pradesh where the votes polled went in favour of one party. Several petitions were filed in various courts in the country on such instances,ââ they said.
Asked about the PIL filed in the Supreme Court, Hari Prasad said the case, which would come up for hearing next week, was filed on technology aspect.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Comments start with news clipping:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> RAJENDRAN
18/07/2009 21:35:01Â <b>Questionable EVMs - A confessation by a Congress Leader
How to tamper with voting machines!</b>
Prabhjot Singh Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 11
Can electronic voting machines (EVMs) be tampered with?
âYesâ, says Mr Amarinder Singh, president, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, supporting his assertion by giving a demonstration of how an EVM with a cleverly programmed chip installed in it can transfer votes polled by one candidate to another leaving no remnants of the original voting pattern.
âConvinced that these EVMs can be manipulated, we are going to make a presentation to the Chief Election Commissioner, Dr Manohar Singh Gill, in New Delhi next week and request him to revert to the original system of voting using ballot papers. If the commission does not listen to us, we will have no choice but to knock at the door of the judiciary to get EVMs out of the elections,â asserts Mr Amarinder Singh.
Capt Amarinder Singh demonstrates how a âfudged electronic voting machineâ works. â A Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan
Mr Amarinder Singh carries a set of EVMs, including the control unit, which during elections remains with the presiding officer of a polling station, and gives a âdemonstration of how the programmed chip transfers the votes of one candidate to anotherâ.
âWe got suspicious about what we call âsophisticated booth capturingâ when we found that there was 129 per cent increase in the votebank of Akalis at Nawanshahr, 100 per cent at Sunam and now 65 per cent at Majitha. The ruling party did well wherever EVMs were used while at other places, we did well. This we did by analysing all elections in the state since 1997,â says the PPCC chief, admitting that âmy wife and Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar were elected to the Lok Sabha from constituencies where EVMs were used. But till that time, for the ruling Akali Dal, EVMs were something new and unique.
âBut once they put their electronics experts on the job, they could immediately find a solution. Whatever the Election Commission says about EVMs is not true. The mother b<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Other comments:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->saffronite
18/07/2009 19:32:50Â nation doomed forever?
Readers please go through the following links.
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/200...-with-evms.html
http://us.rediff.com/www/news/2009/jul/04w...2009-rigged.htm
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/05/cir...-was-there.html
http://www.groupsrv.com/religion/about310538.html
Vijayalakshmi
17/07/2009 06:36:03Â Demo held to show.......
There is no doubt that it was selective 'chawlaisation'
that enabled the Con party to capture power in 2009 and 2004.Inspite of the PIL filed by Dr.Satikant Chowdhury in 2004,no remedial action was taken by the Con party, nor did the BJP and other parties insist on it.The result was the repeat of 2004 in 2009!The Central leadership of the BJP is not assertive enough.That is why the Con party is able to get away with
anything!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->