NEW DELHI: The level is set for the remaining of the meeting elections in 2018 with Telangana and Rajasthan going to the polls on December 7. Over four.74 crore people are eligible to cast their vote in Rajasthan, and over 2.80 crore voters in Telangana. We check out how Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) paintings and how safe they're.
EVM WITH VVPAT IN A NUTSHELL
* An EVM has a Control Unit and a Balloting Unit in conjunction with VVPAT joined by a cable
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* The VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) is an additional unit connected to the EVM, which prints a small slip of paper that carries the symbol, title and serial number of the candidate voted by voter, which is visual for 7 (seven) seconds within the viewing window
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* The polling officer has the Control Unit, while the Balloting Unit & VVPAT is stored in a compartment for electorate to vote
* „Unless the polling officer turns on the Control Unit, one can’t vote.
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* Unless the polling officer turns on the Control Unit, one can’t vote.
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* Each Balloting Unit has the choice of 15 applicants and a NOTA button
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* Two Ballot Units are usually joined to supply 16-31 applicants together with NOTA
EVMs ARE…
* Standalone Machines
* No Radio Frequency transmission or reception imaginable - no wi-fi communication imaginable „
* One Time Programmable (OTP) chip
* Dynamic coding of key press
* Real time clock for time and date stamping key press
HOW SECURE IS AN EVM?
* As a citizen presses a balloting button at the Ballot Unit, the vote is recorded and the device gets locked. Even if one presses that or another button once more, no vote will be recorded. EVMs ensure that the principle of ‘one particular person, one vote’.
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* No one can rewrite a program with out damaging the sealed microchip in EVM. So EVM programming cannot be modified to facilitate a selected candidate or birthday celebration„ EVMs can be taken away and damaged while taking pictures booths.
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* For system faults, an officer, answerable for 10 polling stations, carries spare EVMs to exchange out-of order machines .
EVM WITH VVPAT IN A NUTSHELL
* An EVM has a Control Unit and a Balloting Unit in conjunction with VVPAT joined by a cable
„
* The VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) is an additional unit connected to the EVM, which prints a small slip of paper that carries the symbol, title and serial number of the candidate voted by voter, which is visual for 7 (seven) seconds within the viewing window
„
* The polling officer has the Control Unit, while the Balloting Unit & VVPAT is stored in a compartment for electorate to vote
* „Unless the polling officer turns on the Control Unit, one can’t vote.
„
* Unless the polling officer turns on the Control Unit, one can’t vote.
„
* Each Balloting Unit has the choice of 15 applicants and a NOTA button
„
* Two Ballot Units are usually joined to supply 16-31 applicants together with NOTA
EVMs ARE…
* Standalone Machines
* No Radio Frequency transmission or reception imaginable - no wi-fi communication imaginable „
* One Time Programmable (OTP) chip
* Dynamic coding of key press
* Real time clock for time and date stamping key press
HOW SECURE IS AN EVM?
* As a citizen presses a balloting button at the Ballot Unit, the vote is recorded and the device gets locked. Even if one presses that or another button once more, no vote will be recorded. EVMs ensure that the principle of ‘one particular person, one vote’.
„
* No one can rewrite a program with out damaging the sealed microchip in EVM. So EVM programming cannot be modified to facilitate a selected candidate or birthday celebration„ EVMs can be taken away and damaged while taking pictures booths.
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* For system faults, an officer, answerable for 10 polling stations, carries spare EVMs to exchange out-of order machines .
What are EVMs, VVPAT and how safe they are
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Reviewed by Kailash
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December 06, 2018
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