In my opinion, blaming EVM is an excuse, leaders of opposition want to run away and overlap their mistakes. There are many contradictions in EVM tampering mythical theory. One theory says it can be hacked by Bluetooth, the other theory says it can be hacked by some other micro controller chip and all etc…My point is that only BJP hacks EVMs. Or BSP, SP also hacks EVMs? Congress also hacks EVMs? It has become the common cry of every politician after every election that EVMs were hacked. The Congress/AAP/SP/BSP/RJD theory says EVMs were hacked in 2014 too. This is insane, in 2014, 60% of the population of India one-sidedly voted for Modi everyone knows the reason behind it. It’s a ground reality. I am not going into that debate.

Let’s debunk the myth about the screamers on ballot papers who keep saying that the USA, Japan etc use ballot papers why can’t India use it? We all know why ballot paper was banned, India is a land of hooliganism, during elections, people capture booth, hijack the trucks which carry ballot papers on the command of politicians, and if it doesn’t work the same trucks meet with accidents or gets drowned in rivers and lakes etc. This already happened in the past, you go back in an era of 70’s, 80’s, 90’s you will find it that such things happened. Who used to do it? You can google it, nothing is hidden. That’s why EVM was introduced. Today we have advanced technology if you say EVMs are tampered then EVM tampering can be stopped by various means one of the means is VVPAT system, just press the button, get its printout, let voter verify that it’s vote is on the right place or not. After the verification voter can dump that piece of paper into the other box. So that if any candidate has doubt on the counting of votes, he/she can demand to recount on the basis of paper trails this is so simple. I could be wrong in giving technical solutions, I am not an IT expert in this case, but there can be other solutions too, IT engineers can figure it out. In the era of technology, if there’s any technical problem then there is a solution if we have viruses, then we have antiviruses too.

What exactly the point of demanding ballot paper then? Do the politicians want to resurrect the era of hooliganism? Some are writing on social networking sites that they will break EVMs in every polling booth in 2019. That’s completely insane and disgusting. Isn’t that provoking people for hooliganism? If such kind of things continues, The voting percentage will decrease. Common people are getting confused and scared, many have already started saying that they won’t vote in 2019. Dear politicians, please stop being insane and childish and blaming EVM. Correct your mistakes which you did in the past if people didn’t vote for you, what was the reason? Find it out, do your campaigning, work accordingly and contest the elections. Insanity, childishness, excuses for blaming EVMs, lies, jugaad will lead us nowhere.

Author – Obed Manwatkar

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