By PTI
NEW DELHI: Ever questioned why digital voting machines, utilized in 4 Lok Sabha elections and 127 meeting polls since 2004, usually are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members of Rajya Sabha, and members of state legislative councils? The EVMs are primarily based on a know-how the place they work as aggregators of votes in direct elections such because the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
Voters press the button towards the identify of the candidate of their selection and the one who luggage the utmost variety of votes is asserted elected.
But the election of the President is held in accordance with the system of proportional illustration by way of single transferable vote.
In accordance with the system of proportional illustration by way of single transferable vote, each elector can mark as many preferences, as there are candidates contesting the election.
These preferences for the candidates are to be marked by the elector, by putting the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, towards the names of the candidates, within the order of choice, within the area supplied in column 2 of the poll paper.
In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, backed by the opposition are the 2 candidates.
The EVMs, officers defined, usually are not designed to register this technique of voting.
The EVM is an aggregator of votes and underneath the system of proportional illustration, the machine should compute votes primarily based on choice and it requires an altogether completely different know-how.
In different phrases, a special sort of EVM can be wanted.
According to the August, 2021 subject of ‘My Vote Matters’, a quarterly journal of the Election Commission, since 2004, EVMs have been utilized in 4 Lok Sabha and 127 meeting elections.
According to the EC web site, first conceived in 1977 within the Election Commission, the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad was assigned the duty to design and develop EVMs.
In 1979 a prototype was developed, which was demonstrated by the Election Commission earlier than the representatives of political events on August 6, 1980.
The Bharat Electronic Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, one other public-sector endeavor, was co-opted together with ECIL to fabricate EVMs as soon as a broad consensus was reached on its introduction.
The machines had been first used within the meeting election in Kerala in May, 1982.
However, the absence of a particular legislation prescribing its use led to the Supreme Court putting down that election.
Subsequently, in 1989, Parliament amended the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to create a provision for using EVMs in elections.
A common consensus on its introduction could possibly be reached solely in 1998 and these had been utilized in 25 legislative meeting constituencies unfold throughout Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
In the meeting elections held in May 2001 within the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, the EVMs had been utilized in all of the meeting constituencies.
Since then, for each state meeting election, the Commission has used the EVMs.
In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, greater than 10 lakh EVMs had been utilized in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the nation.
NEW DELHI: Ever questioned why digital voting machines, utilized in 4 Lok Sabha elections and 127 meeting polls since 2004, usually are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members of Rajya Sabha, and members of state legislative councils? The EVMs are primarily based on a know-how the place they work as aggregators of votes in direct elections such because the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
Voters press the button towards the identify of the candidate of their selection and the one who luggage the utmost variety of votes is asserted elected.
But the election of the President is held in accordance with the system of proportional illustration by way of single transferable vote.
In accordance with the system of proportional illustration by way of single transferable vote, each elector can mark as many preferences, as there are candidates contesting the election.
These preferences for the candidates are to be marked by the elector, by putting the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, towards the names of the candidates, within the order of choice, within the area supplied in column 2 of the poll paper.
In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, backed by the opposition are the 2 candidates.
The EVMs, officers defined, usually are not designed to register this technique of voting.
The EVM is an aggregator of votes and underneath the system of proportional illustration, the machine should compute votes primarily based on choice and it requires an altogether completely different know-how.
In different phrases, a special sort of EVM can be wanted.
According to the August, 2021 subject of ‘My Vote Matters’, a quarterly journal of the Election Commission, since 2004, EVMs have been utilized in 4 Lok Sabha and 127 meeting elections.
According to the EC web site, first conceived in 1977 within the Election Commission, the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad was assigned the duty to design and develop EVMs.
In 1979 a prototype was developed, which was demonstrated by the Election Commission earlier than the representatives of political events on August 6, 1980.
The Bharat Electronic Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, one other public-sector endeavor, was co-opted together with ECIL to fabricate EVMs as soon as a broad consensus was reached on its introduction.
The machines had been first used within the meeting election in Kerala in May, 1982.
However, the absence of a particular legislation prescribing its use led to the Supreme Court putting down that election.
Subsequently, in 1989, Parliament amended the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to create a provision for using EVMs in elections.
A common consensus on its introduction could possibly be reached solely in 1998 and these had been utilized in 25 legislative meeting constituencies unfold throughout Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
In the meeting elections held in May 2001 within the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, the EVMs had been utilized in all of the meeting constituencies.
Since then, for each state meeting election, the Commission has used the EVMs.
In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, greater than 10 lakh EVMs had been utilized in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the nation.
