Lahore: As Prime Minister Imran Khan considers the use of electronic voting machines (EVM) for transparent elections, without any criminal fraud or ballot tampering, research shows that this phenomenon seems to be working well in more than 20 countries, including India . -In the May 2019 general election, 67% of the 911 million eligible voters voted in 542 electoral districts through this model.

Since 2014, these machines have been used in all general elections and state assembly elections in India, when more than 1 million EVMs were used in all electoral districts of the country.

EVM is an electronic device used to record votes. The electronic voting machine consists of two units-a control unit and a voting unit-connected by a five-meter cable. The control unit of the EVM is placed with the polling station officials, while its voting unit is kept in the polling room. They do not need electricity. Research conducted by the "Jang Group and Geo TV Network" further shows that since 2000, EVM has been used in 113 state assembly elections and 3 Lok Sabha elections in India. In the 2019 polls, Democracy spent more than 54 billion Indian rupees on EVM (equivalent to 1163.9 billion rupees in Pakistan).

India’s well-known English daily newspaper Business Standards quoted the Indian Electoral Commission as saying before the 2019 poll: “There are approximately 2.2 million voting units, 1.63 million control units and nearly 1.73 million voter-verified paper audit trails ( VVPAT) will be used in the upcoming 2019 elections.” It added: “Since the 1950s, Indian elections have been marked by criminal fraud and ballot tampering. The first large-scale organized looting of votes was observed in 1957. Major election."

According to many media reports in India, electronic voting requires capital expenditures for updating equipment every few years, as well as annual expenditures for maintenance, safety and supply. If it works well, its speed can be an advantage because there are many matches for each vote.

When using EVM, the voter will press the voting button to let voters vote instead of issuing ballots.

India, Australia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Namibia, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Switzerland, Venezuela and the Philippines are all using EVM.

In 2019, “India Today” revealed: “The cost of M2 EVM (manufactured between 2006-10) is 8,670 Indian rupees (equivalent to 18,687 Pakistani rupees) per EVM (voting unit and control unit). The cost EVM of M3 has been preliminary It is fixed at approximately 17,000 Indian rupees (equivalent to 36,642 Pakistani rupees) per unit."

The "Brookings Institution" in the United States has always believed that: "For a democratic country with such a large multi-party system, election fraud is naturally a major problem. However, the use of EVM in the Indian election process for many years has given its voters It is believed that their votes have had a meaningful impact on election results and democratic governance. Under the paper ballot system, polling stations are often occupied and ballot boxes can be filled, resulting in abnormally high turnout rates. EVMs have helped solve this through mergers. One risk is an important feature-only five votes are registered per minute. It takes longer to occupy polling stations to commit election fraud."

It proposed: "In 2013, the Indian Election Commission officially incorporated the voter verification paper audit trail machine into the election system. VVPAT-leaving the paper track of the vote-as an additional layer of verifiability and assurance in the election. Process. Paper. Quality records ensure that votes were indeed voted for the prospective candidates and are recorded."

The "Brookings Institution" has more to say: "According to the 2019 ruling of the Supreme Court of India, in the five polling stations of each assembly department, VVPAT orders and EVMs were randomly matched. Among the 1.73 million VVPATs deployed Among them, the decline in VVPAT from 20,625 was physically calculated. The physical audit did not find a single case where the VVPAT table and the EVM count did not match."

According to reports from the Electoral Commission of India, the Brookings Institution and India Today, the EVM was first used in 50 polling stations in the Kerala by-election in 1982. However, the absence of specific laws governing its use led to the cancellation of the election by the Supreme Court.

The Indian Electronics Corporation of Hyderabad was first conceived in the Election Commission in 1977 and was assigned the task of designing and developing it.

In 1998, these EVMs were used in 25 legislative assembly constituencies in the three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.

Its use was further expanded to 45 parliamentary constituencies in 1999, and later to the 45 parliamentary constituencies elected by the Haryana State Assembly in February 2000. According to a 2013 report by the Hamburg University of Technology, Nepal, Bhutan, Namibia and Kenya have purchased electric vehicles made in India. In 2013, Namibia obtained 1,700 control units and 3,500 voting units from Bharat Electronics Co., Ltd. of India.

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