Dr Udit Raj , Ex MP & Spokesperson and National Convenor of EVM Hatao Morcha , is asking the questions to be replied by Election Commission of India . The Congress Party and INDIA Allaince have been trying to meet ECI but were unsuccessful. Following doubts and queries are to be replied . EVM Hatao Morcha is a common platform of NGOs, INDIA alliance, social organisations, Intellectuals and Citizens of the country. Waman Meshram of BAMCEF and DOM ( Dalit , OBC & Minorities) Parisangh headed by Dr Udit Raj jointly initiated this move . It has decided to launch protest / agitation from Jantar Mantar on 22nd February, 24 .
Following questions are to be replied
1. Public trust in the EVMs has never been lower than it is today. This is because EVMs are “Black-Boxes” and voting through these machines do not comply with the essential “Democracy Principles” which stipulate that each voter has the knowledge and capacity to verify that his or her vote is cast-as-intended, recorded-as-cast and counted-as-recorded.
2. Design and implementation of EVMs as well as the results of both software and hardware verification are not public and open to independent review. The Citizens’ Commission on Elections, headed by a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, consulted top national and international experts on the issue of EVM/VVPAT voting/counting, and concluded that:
❖ It does not provide provable guarantees against hacking, tampering and spurious vote injections.
❖ VVPAT system does not allow the voter to verify the slip before the vote is cast.
❖ Due to absence of End-to-End (E2E) verifiability, the present EVM system is not verifiable and therefore by its very design itself is unfit for democratic elections.
3. ECI’s VVPAT system is not truly voter-verified because it does not provide the necessary agency to a voter to cancel her/his vote if she/he thinks it has been recorded incorrectly. Though the ECI has arranged for all EVMs to be accompanied with VVPAT-device, the “Voter-Verifiable Paper Trail” has been reduced to the level of a ‘bioscope’ which shows up a tiny ‘paper slip’ for seven seconds which then vanishes and is NOT counted.
4. ECI’s claim that the EVM (BU-VVPAT-CU) units are “totally standalone machines having one-time programmable chips” is not true. With the introduction of VVPATs, the name and symbol of the candidates will have to be uploaded to EVM using an external
