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Ensure EVMS are tamper-proof: BJP to EC

New Delhi: With questions being raised by a section over the proper functioning of Electronic Voting Machines, BJP on Sunday asked the Election Commission to ensure that the machines are tamper-proof before putting them to use in the coming assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana. However, the party ....Read more

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EVMs should be bannedBy: J.N.Mahanty | Monday , 6 Jul '09 23:45:01 PM Reply | Forward Engr.Omesh Saigal, IAS(1964 Batch) and who was boss of the present CEC has submitted a detailed paper on Tampering of EVMs, with adequate back up from well known Software Engineers and the conclusion is that the EVMs can be manipulated by tampering with the inbuilt software system.It is no surprise that in Orissa, quite a few EVMs registered more Votes than the total number of Voters as per the Voters Lists of the Polling Booths.The tampering also explains the secret behind the near equal number of Votes polled by the BJP Candidates of 3 Assembly Constituencies of Bhubaneswar City, who lost with huge margins.

EVMs should be foolproofBy: shanthanu | Monday , 6 Jul '09 17:48:51 PM Reply | Forward When a pertinent question is raised, it is not right to waive off the question without proper verification of the claim made. When former government official has given a demonstration before the election commission to show how it is possible to manipulate the result by writing programs it is a serious issue which should have attracted the attention of the media and raised in the public forum. The illogical silence is baffling.

Rubbishes again..By: Jem Hassan | Monday , 6 Jul '09 11:31:52 AM Reply | Forward I think the BJP is being real Jokers'party by alleging such things only after 1 month of the result coming out...the inspiration for this allegation must be from Iranian politics...they are thinking Indians are same as Iranians that politicians are tampered to go to the level of making amendmends in the resluts...pls dont take the exit poll results...what happend in 2004?...almost all exit polls in recent years were unscientific and incredible...exit polls have the fate of astrolgers....they all predicted MMS will never make it again...so pls stop rubbishing it...our system is not Iranian system...there is a clear transparency among the election officers..and their actions...BJP is in darkness...they can not figure out what went wrong...so they just try to find a willow-the-wisp...to save their face among the public!...poor try though!

Misuse of the EVMs By: K. G.Acharya | Sunday , 5 Jul '09 21:58:04 PM Reply | Forward I am a statistician and statistics is a science, according to which, with more than 99 % confidence level, one can say that the results of all the exit polls in the country cannot go wrong, since the combined sample size was very large.I was a Sr.Lecturer in Statistics in VJTI, a reputed engineering college in Mumbai, for more than 33 years and have taught Statistics to graduate and post-graduate students.Psephologists, who analysed the exit polls are all surprised, but they are keeping quiet since most of them are more loyal to the Congress than to their profession.In fact, in the interest of democracy, journalism and psephology, they must also look into the fraud by the misuse of the EVMs very seriously.

Makes sense to me.By: Surendra | Sunday , 5 Jul '09 19:06:55 PM Reply | Forward Right on Niranjan bhai. Advani should attend all these voting sessions and count the votes and submit the number of votes to the EC. The result should be declared as stated by Shrimad Bhagvad Maha Paramhans Bhagwan Shri Advani Ji Maharaj.

Fascinating!By: Spork | Sunday , 5 Jul '09 18:43:45 PM Reply | Forward Interestingly there seem to be no comment, no interest shown by most newspapers, TV and the Congress.

VOTING SYSTEMSBy: NIRANJAN | Sunday , 5 Jul '09 17:45:15 PM Reply | Forward WHY NOT WE GATHER ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO VOTE IN PLACE AND TAKE A SHOW OF HANDS? THAT WAY IT WILL BE FOOLPROFF AND MR ADVANI CAN ATTEND EACH OF THOSE PLACES TO ENSURE FAIR VOTING!

I SUSPECT FOUL PLAY IN LAST LOK SABHA ELECTION WITH OUTSIDE HANDSBy: N.R.I | Sunday , 5 Jul '09 17:25:19 PM Reply | Forward U.S. OFFICALS MET SHREE ADVANIJI AND ONE OF THE CHIEF MINISTER OF THE STATE BEFORE THE ELECTION STARTED .WHEN THE RESULTS WERE ANNOUCED THE VICTORY FOR CONGRESS , WHICH WAS IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS OUTSIDE HAND LIKE C.I.A. OF AMERICAN WAS INVOLVED .U.S. HAS TOTALLY BAN THE MACHINES . WHY INDIA IS USING IT ? ? ? ?