05-04-2012, 04:51 PM
Fool-proof Ballot
EVM PPT 28 Jul 13.30.ppt (Size: 1.11 MB / Downloads: 52)
The EVM background story
Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL) & Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) have shipped their proprietary software to be fused into the chip, to their vendors Renesas (Japan) and Microchip (USA) ?.
Programming assembly code available to only a selected few. Plus there is no precise verification tool to check whether the EVM is manipulated.
New EVM purchases since 2006 (up graded) 2,53,400 from BEL and 1,94,600 from ECIL
The mode of shipment goes through many private contractors before it reaches the manufacturers or the polling booth.
The Election Commission or any political party does not have any system to check the transparency of the hardware or software and its security
ECIL and BEL also outsource including repair work to private contractors.
Possible ways of tampering EVM’s
Tampering with the hardware chip or software by adding malicious code like Trojan horse or mis-configuration, can alter vote totals or favour a particular candidate.Swaping of chips/boards enable trojans to favour a candidate
Cables of two controls units can be swaped to swap votes of Loksabha & Assembly if polling held simalteneously
Hacking can take place during transportation, handling, polling station, storing places, repair, maintenance etc.
There is ambiguity on the Prof. Indiresan Expert Committee review report 2006 on whether an OTP or a Masked ROM chip is used. Can we consider OTP to be a writable blank CD and Masked ROM is like a pre-written Movie CD?
Malfacturing or Intentional faults
Any button pressed, light/ vote registered to one particular candidate
EVM stopped functioning during the polling process
Polling staff was not at all updated or aware about the security measures
EVM that was used in previous elections in a particular district were used in the same district in the Lok Sabha 2009
EVM seal found open on counting day
EVM got jammed and could not be opened on the counting day
Independent candidate got over 500 abnormal votes in one booth and major parties got none! The Candidate have no locus-standby in that areas.
There were differences between the polling figures declared by the Election Commission in the booths and the result shown in EVM in those booths
Petitions filed in the Supreme court
Retired Computer Science professor Satinath Choudhary stated, “producing doctored EVMs is child’s play”, as early as 2004 in the Supreme court which directs Election Commission to take note.
Jana Chaitanya Vedika (NGO) moved the Supreme Court, under Article 32 of the Constitution, to ensure that the votes cast by the voters, are registered properly and without any tampering/ manipulation of the EVM’s .NetIndia, renowned Company in EVM technology, submited observation regarding lack of security measures, transparency and hacking of EVM
Conclusion
In light of all the above discussions, it is clear that there is reasonable doubt about the reliability of EVMs.
Given the poor experience with EVM’s worldwide, it is difficult to believe that India EVM’s are somehow far superior to those used elsewhere, and somehow immune to fraud.
It is entirely possible that the election machinery has taken every possible step in good faith, but that clever criminals have subverted the system for their own ends.
Use technology which can be understood by common-literat/illiterate voters & un-trained polling staff.