SatpathyLiveNov 22, 2019
ADR has filed a petition in SC on Nov 15, asking for ‘a Court order directing EC to conduct actual and accurate reconciliation of the (votes) data before declaration of final result of any election’. Number of votes cast was more than total figure of voters in voters' list across all constituencies in Madhya Pradesh during 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
MadhuraNov 22, 2019
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How can the computer (EVM microcontroller) make such large errors? The Election Comm of India tech committee hasn't felt any need to explain these things. Indians are supposed to be a docile tribe! Heard the petition mentions mismatches in 370 plus constituencies
Indians are not merely docile and moronic, they are also not very particular about whether they lead a savage existence without basic rights. Perhaps because we have never really cared about or experienced 'rights'.
Nov 22, 2019 at 6:23amWeb
Show threadരാമകൃഷ്ണൻNov 22, 2019

@TathagataSatpathy As a first step, the code and the circuitry of the EVM should be published as Free (as in Freedom) Software for peer review, improvements and scrutiny. The code that runs on the EVM is written by humans and hence can contain errors. Could you please your good offices to campaign for making the EVM circuitry and software source code available?

/cc: @praveen

Show threadPirate Praveen 普拉文Nov 22, 2019
@vu3rdd
Even if it is Free Software, that goes only halfway. How do we ensure the same code is flashed on the machine? There has to be a physical verification like vvpat, but if it is not counted and matched, its useless. The best would be going back to paper ballots.
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Show threadരാമകൃഷ്ണൻNov 22, 2019

@praveen There are various cryptographic means to ensure that same code is flashed into the hardware. For all of that, the pre-requisite is that the code is free and is build-able and reproducible.

Whether someone is misusing EVM is a separate issue, in my opinion that would have to be handled separately (like the method you are suggesting).

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@vu3rdd @praveen @TathagataSatpathy
I am not sure EVM has any advantage. G.W. Bush was elected with strange errors with EVM, in south of USA and see how much wars he started.

Human counting has the advantage to be able to be fully counted by both camps of an election or law vote.
On the other side, there is no unhackable electronic system on earth.