By Abdul Bari Masoud, MM News,
New Delhi: Strongly pitching for reverting back the election process to ballot papers, noted activists and academicians from Gujarat have alleged on Saturday that electronic voting machines can be hacked on a massive scale to manipulate final election results. Alleging that ‘communal elements infiltrated’ in the Election Commission, they warned that manipulation of EVM machines has posed a grave danger to the Indian democracy and conduct of free and fair elections.
Addressing media persons here, PUCL Gujarat president Gautam Thakker, Gujarat Social Watch president Mahesh Pandya, noted economist Prof Hemant Kumar Shah and ANHAD founding trustee Shabnam Hashmi said EVM was found to be voting only for BJP in Assam has proved that the alarm bells rung by them after the Gujarat assembly elections in 2012 were not wrong. “The voices of activists who raised this question before and after 2012Gujarat elections were ignored, called mad and as imagining things”.
Citing many examples of manipulation from Gujarat, Gautam Thakker said many experts, both national and international, have experimented with Indian EVMs and have shown that, even the third generation machines are not as secured as these are made out to be. He said the PUCL has sent a letter in this regards to the Election Commission in December last year but it took four months time to reply insisting that EVMs are foolproof and secured.
Shabnam Hashmi said use of EVM machines should be abandoned in the elections. ‘If Gujarat was used as the laboratory of the hate ideology it can also be used as the laboratory of undermining the democracy in India,” she alleged.
She pointed out that there was a strong wave against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the state but the anti-Modi wave was not reflected in the assembly election verdict. “No way could Modi have won. There was subversion and manipulation”. While Pandya said it is a mockery of democracy as he mentioned some incidents of manipulation in Gujarat. “ In Padra assembly bye-election, one EVM machine recorded 111 votes while in the booth there were only 44voters and all went into BJP’s favour, in Sabarmati Asharma noted Gandhnian Chunu Bhai Patel not voted for some other party but his vote into BJP”.
Claiming that EVMs are susceptible to manipulation, Prof Shah said the EC can postpone the elections for 15 to 20 days for saving the democracy as it did when former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed in a suicide attack in 1991.
At press meet a documentary was shown on how EVMs machines are manipulated. Presenting a study done by experts, they said manipulations are difficult to detect and correct. The technical reality is that every Electronic machine can be manipulated. All electronic machines are designed by humans, for manipulation. The real issue is who can manipulate a machine and who cannot. There cannot be a machine without an input and an output window, therefore, there is always a possibility of manipulating a chip or a microprocessor or a super computer. In this age of electronics, when human beings can manipulate instruments sent to moon or mars, any machine and that too, architecturally as simple as EVM, can easily be manipulated sitting on earth. It is child’s play to design a cheap instrument, or program a laptop or even a cell phone, which can write and re-write on any chip either through direct connection or through remote operation. There are many ways in which EVMs can be manipulated. A few of these have been explained in detail on Internet. These are easy to grasp and execute.
Casting asprisons on the role of the EC, they alleged that an artificial Modi wave has been created by the media particularly electronic media to manipulate final elections results through EVMs as happened in Gujarat.
“The objective of this operation should not be to control all EVMs, but to control the final results or in other words Indian Democracy. If one party keeps winning elections everywhere the entire operation will be jeopardized. Manipulate results only where it is crucial”.
They demanded that a committee of experts must be constituted by the Parliament. “This committee must identify, may be, 20 groups of IT and electronic experts from IITs, DRDO, BARC, TIFR, ISRO, CSIR, etc. These groups should be given a one line mandate-change the results in EVM during actual poling without getting detected-each group should be provided with sufficient funds and support system that they ask for. The extent of funds cannot be an issue when Indian democracy is at stake, if no group is able to accomplish the mandate then we are safe, but if even one of them is able to manipulate just one EVM without detection we should abandon EVMs and revert back to paper ballots as many countries have done”.
Modi has done good job in gujrat that ishrat jaha and other terrorists were killed since than there is no terrorism in gujrat. So gujrat modele is desire 4 india to destroy terrorists. Thanks to modiji.
Kartikeya,
if killing of ishrat jahan was a good job, why are policemen involved in it are in jail. Even modi’s Man friday, Amit shah(former home minister of gujarat), spent a month in jail in connection with extortion and extra-judicial killing of sohrabuddin. One of Modi’s ministers-dr mayaben kodnani-has been sentenced by court to 28 years of prison term for her involvement in mass massacres
But what about terrorists Pragya Singh, Aseemanand, Col(purohit) and many of their colleagues involved in Ajmer Shariff, Mecca Masjid, Malegaon and Samjhauta Express blasts as also the terrorists involved in assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and demolition of Babri Masjid.
Bohat kiya is ne atyachaar
Nafrat ki aandhi aur narsanghaar
Ghareebon ka dushman, Ambani ka yaar
Ban-ne mat dena darinde ki sarkaar
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