The CEC has already informed the Supreme Court as well as Govt. of India that the Commission is ready with EVM linked to paper-trail so that remote tampering if any could be verified in case of complaints after the poll. This will also ensure anonymity of the voter's choice when he pulls out the paper strips and puts it into the box.
The Govt. rules of 2000 specifies that in the use of any electronic machine for public purposes, it should be supported by a paper document what we get as print-outs from Supermarkets and elsewhere. The GOI has not ben following the rule all these years in the matter of EVM-s though the rule is mandatory and Congress esp. preferred the EVM-s (already banned in several Countries abroad) to get their favourite candidates elected by remote control, the EVM-s containg Trojan accepting such signals from outside the storage areas.
Now that the CEC Sampath has already informed GOI Nof the readiness of such EVMS with paper-trail that could be verified in case of disputes, it is for the Supreme Court and GOI to expedite manufacture of such machines and use the tamper-proof EVM-s in future.
The other methods described by Sarbajit Roy are more complicated and not applicable on a wider scale in all villages in the Country.
From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
To: indiaresists <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] India's rigged EVM voting machines
To: indiaresists <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] India's rigged EVM voting machines
Dear Mr Raman
This is a complex issue, and it would be better not to trivialise it. For your benefit I am summarising it in simple language using extreme examples. Even then most people do not get it for many days.
1) Obviously none of us are so naive as to think that overnight India will become a safe place for votes to be cast openly.
2) Luckily for us TECHNOLOGY (cryptographic hashes) will allow this to happen. Every elector can be assigned a PUBLIC key (say a 48 bit A/N string valid for a fixed time (say 3 months) and he can generate his own PRIVATE key for an votiong proposal using this. By this means every voter can vote anonymously (using his private key for that proposal). By this means the private key for a proposal becomes a valuable tradable commodity for that election, especially if these keys are publicly traded on specialised exchanges. By this means we can eliminate Parliament itself, since voting on Bills and rules can be directly done by the electors whose votes are "traded" (ie. bought and sold) to the extent that even STT is collected.
Safeguards will have to be built in to ensure that proposals cannot be voted in with too few votes, or that Corporates cannot buy voters cheaply to vote themselves huge profits.
To give an example of how it works.
Voter A is passionately convinced in favour of a proposal, say independence for J&K moved by a Mr Geelani. He can transfer his vote to Mr. Geelani Free of Cost FOR THIS PROPOSAL ONLY. If Mr. Geelani gets 10% free (or paid) votes the proposal moves forward. Mr. Geelani will start collecting as many free votes as he can, after that he will have to start buying votes. His opponents, ie. those who want J*K to stay in India will be doing the same at the same time. By these means the voters become important and corporates and foreigners can start doing openly what they are now doing in secret. In other words we want to cut out the middleman (netas) and bring the money directly to the people (who are being shafted in any case). The cost/price/value of a citizen's vote will be public, transparent and quoted in real time.
Sarbajit
This is a complex issue, and it would be better not to trivialise it. For your benefit I am summarising it in simple language using extreme examples. Even then most people do not get it for many days.
1) Obviously none of us are so naive as to think that overnight India will become a safe place for votes to be cast openly.
2) Luckily for us TECHNOLOGY (cryptographic hashes) will allow this to happen. Every elector can be assigned a PUBLIC key (say a 48 bit A/N string valid for a fixed time (say 3 months) and he can generate his own PRIVATE key for an votiong proposal using this. By this means every voter can vote anonymously (using his private key for that proposal). By this means the private key for a proposal becomes a valuable tradable commodity for that election, especially if these keys are publicly traded on specialised exchanges. By this means we can eliminate Parliament itself, since voting on Bills and rules can be directly done by the electors whose votes are "traded" (ie. bought and sold) to the extent that even STT is collected.
Safeguards will have to be built in to ensure that proposals cannot be voted in with too few votes, or that Corporates cannot buy voters cheaply to vote themselves huge profits.
To give an example of how it works.
Voter A is passionately convinced in favour of a proposal, say independence for J&K moved by a Mr Geelani. He can transfer his vote to Mr. Geelani Free of Cost FOR THIS PROPOSAL ONLY. If Mr. Geelani gets 10% free (or paid) votes the proposal moves forward. Mr. Geelani will start collecting as many free votes as he can, after that he will have to start buying votes. His opponents, ie. those who want J*K to stay in India will be doing the same at the same time. By these means the voters become important and corporates and foreigners can start doing openly what they are now doing in secret. In other words we want to cut out the middleman (netas) and bring the money directly to the people (who are being shafted in any case). The cost/price/value of a citizen's vote will be public, transparent and quoted in real time.
Sarbajit
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:47 PM, J Raman <events@southasianoutlook.com> wrote:
FriendsSolution: Where is the secrecy of the vote?"State will see nothing happens..." What kind of State you are looking at – how can there be a sudden change from a corrupt one to a real good one that will protect. Except for a few ones left (even they are being pressurised) – the whole system is rotten.An ordinary citizen is not protected at all.Let's come up with a better solution.J RamanFrom: Sarbajit RoySent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 10:35 AMTo: indiaresistsSubject: [IAC#RG] India's rigged EVM voting machinesFriends
Yesterday IAC conducted a "poll".
Immediately there was a flurry of abuse saying that the results were impossible.
For decades the Congress and BJP have been rigging the elections using their "black box" EVM voting machines. Then somebody "stole" one of these machines and what was an open secret ("insecure EVMs") got confirmed.
Previous CECs like Lygdoh and Krishnamurthy were said to be part of this racket and had apparently even opened a Joint Venture to conduct this rigging business after their retirement. Other CECs and ECs were part of the Sai Baba fixing network which controlled BOTH the Congress and the BJP.
Now due to complaints of citizens the ECI has come up with a new device to buy time. The so-called "paper trail" EVMs. This is also a fraud. Don't believe it.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/election-commission-ready-with-new-evm/384187-37-64.html
Let me tell you where the scam lies and why there is 1 and only 1 fix for it.
The SCAM : "Secrecy of the ballot". <-- for decades Indians have been brainwashed with this myth. Attack this and you are abused.
The SOLUTION: Every vote cast has to be openly published with the name and address of the voter whose identity has been established. It is the responsibility of the State to see that nothing happens for casting one's vote for the opposition. To prevent terrorism and goondaism at least 80% cvotes must be cast for a result to be declared. Only when that is achieved can we say that there is true democracy in India. Until then gooda-ism will flourish.
PS: This applies equally for all votes cast in Parliament.
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