Your vote would soon get printed as proof: Poll panel chief
February 4th, 2011 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Cast your vote by pressing a button on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) but eager to see proof on paper that your candidate has indeed got the vote? The Election Commission is working on a special printing process of ballots.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), S.Y. Quraishi said Friday the poll panel is working on a method that will ensure voters get to see a printed proof of the vote cast.
“We are working on a printing process by which when you cast your vote through an EVM, a printer in front of you will print your choice and it will be dropped in a box,” he said.
“The printer will be behind a glass wall so that you can only see it and be satisfied that your vote has indeed gone to your preferred candidate. However, receipts of ballots cast is not considered, because it may pose a threat to the voter’s security once he or she goes out of the booth,” he added.
Speaking in favour of EVMs, he said: “Personally I feel that the chances of mechanical failure is more than electronic failure. Our EVMs are very good, they are not networked, so they don’t receive any signal. And they can’t be worked upon an operating systems, so there is no question of tinkering,” he said.
- Voting machines will soon give paper receipt: Official - Jan 20, 2012
- New voting machine with paper trail tested - Jul 26, 2011
- New voting machines found perfect: Election Commission - Jul 28, 2011
- EVMs for assembly polls checked in parties' presence: Quraishi - Mar 02, 2011
- Order reserved on Swamy's plea on voting machines (Lead) - Jan 10, 2012
- Paramilitary forces to stay for 10 days after poll ends: CEC - Apr 29, 2011
- Swamy's plea on voting machines disposed of - Jan 17, 2012
- Right to recall unworkable in India: CEC - Oct 16, 2011
- Simulated polls to test new voting system Tuesday - Jul 25, 2011
- Swamy's plea on voting machines dismissed (Lead) - Jan 17, 2012
- Swamy's plea on EVMs disposed of (Second Lead) - Jan 17, 2012
- Expert committee to decide on EVMs, says Quraishi - Dec 30, 2010
- Simulated polls to test new voting system - Jun 15, 2011
- Around 75 percent voting in Tamil Nadu assembly by-poll (Second Lead) - Mar 18, 2012
- Commonwealth group suggests voters' education - Jun 18, 2011
Tags: ballots, cec, chief election commissioner, election commission, electronic failure, electronic voting machine, evm, evms, favour, glass wall, mechanical failure, New Delhi, operating systems, panel chief, poll, preferred candidate, printing process, proof, quraishi, receipts