EVM Fraud Detected

Am not sure what exactly to think about this. But If its true then the
oncoming elections lose any sense of credibility and any sense that people
do actually have a choice.



An EVM that 'votes' only for BJP stuns poll staff in Assam
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/An-EVM-that-votes-only-for-BJP-stuns-poll-staff-in-Assam/articleshow/33153152.cms

GUWAHATI: An electronic voting machine raised many eyebrows across the
state during a mandatory mock poll in Jorhat on Tuesday. Every time a
button was pressed, the vote went in favour of BJP.

The Jorhat parliamentary constituency returning officer and deputy
commissioner Vishal Vasant Solanki told TOI that all EVMs in his custody
are being put through a second level of test by engineers of the
Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), one of the two companies from
Hyderabad, which manufactures EVMs.

This Jorhat Lok Sabha seat has Congress stalwart and former Union minister
Bijoy Krishna Handique locking horns with BJP youth and tea tribal leader
Kamakhya Tasa. This will be Handique's record seventh successive attempt
for the Lok Sabha election. Jorhat goes to the polls on April 7.

State chief electoral officer Vijyandra on Wednesday said, "An EVM in
Jorhat was found malfunctioning yesterday. It is a defective machine and it
was noticed when EVMs were readied in front of representatives of all
political parties. We will not send the faulty unit to any polling
station."

An EVM consists of two units, a control unit and a balloting unit. Both
unites are connected with cable. The balloting unit is a small box-like
device, on top of which each candidate and his or her election symbol
appears. The voter selects his candidate by pressing the blue button.

The returning officer said, "These EVMs were here for long. Usually, EVMs
are kept in the custody of the deputy commissioner and during elections
they are taken to strong rooms."

Congress lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India on
Wednesday and demanded thorough inspection of all EVMs in just not Jorhat,
but the entire state. Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Ranjan
Bora, who lodged the complaint with EC, said, "The mock poll was done at
random and the EVM for Teok assembly constituency took everyone by
surprise. When the hand symbol button was pressed for Congress, the vote
was found to be recorded in favour of BJP."

He said the incident has fuelled suspicion in their minds that EVMs may
have been tampered with to favour a particular political party.

Interestingly, after Congress got an overwhelming mandate in the 2011
assembly polls, Asom Gana Parishad had lodged a complaint against Congress
accusing it of tinkering with EVMs. The Congress leadership had rejected
this charge and pointed out that EVM results could not be manipulated.

"EVM tampering could be possible in the Jorhat case," a senior Congress
leader said.


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