25 April 2024 :
I threw the balls in the court of the Supreme Court , as
:
Dear
Supreme Court : If you cannot Order, at least “ Ask – Guide –Direct
I urged that
Supreme Court ask Election Commission to implement my following suggestions :
Ø 100 %
verification of VVPAT ? No problem ! .. ………………….02 Apr 2019
Ø Votes Audit :
Paper gives 99.9936% / Electronic gives 100 %.. ….18 Mar 2024
26 April 2024 :
Supreme court picked
up the ball and threw it in the court of Election Commission while giving its
verdict
Source :
Extract :
The
court suggested to the Election Commission (EC) to explore the possibility of
devising an “electronic machine” to count the VVPAT paper slips.
This
direction may have been prompted by an affidavit submitted by the EC during the
hearing of the case. The poll body had explained that it takes an hour to manually count the VVPAT slips of a single polling
station.
Extract :
During the
course of hearing, it was suggested that instead of physically counting VVPAT
slips, they could be counted by a counting machine.
The court said that this
suggestion, including the suggestion that barcoding of the symbols loaded in
VVPATs may be helpful in machine counting, may be examined by the ECI.
“These
are technical aspects, which will require evaluation and study, and hence we
would refrain from making any comment either way,” the Bench said.
My Take :
Ball # 1
Extract :
EVBAT = Everyone Verifiable Block-chain Audit
Trail
By getting everyone to vote using his / her Smart Phone ,
as suggested in :
VotesApp ………………. 18 Aug 2013
- which would ensure a Block-chain technology based verification of ,
# 100
% of the votes cast
# Automatically
/ Instantly
# Without
need for any human presence
Anyone can view transactions recorded on
a permissioned block-chain.
That means that once Election Commission
managing the block-chain, verifies the votes, anyone — voters, candidates, or just interested third
parties — could see the election results.
For details , read :
Block Chain for Voting ? ……………….. 11 March 2018
Sure, it is too late for the general elections which are a
few weeks away
Dear CJI , Hon Shri Gogoiji, ( supremecourt@nic.in / nalsa-dla@nic.in ) :
It is time to test the hypocrisy of those opposition
parties by telling them :
“ We , the Supreme Court are convinced with your arguments
for 50 % VVPAT
tally
In fact, we are so convinced that we are
ordering the Election Commission to
undertake 100 % audit
And to ensure that there is no need to carry
out such audit in the presence of
representatives of any political parties, we are ordering EC to implement :
VotesApp
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Ball # 2
Ø
100 %
verification of VVPAT ? No problem ! .. ………………………………02 Apr 2019
Extract :
Now, it is too late for the upcoming
elections within the next few days , but I urge EC to consider following suggestion
for the next election ( even the very next State Election ) :
Just above the EVM , mount a CCTV camera ,
which is connected with the EVM and gets actuated as soon as the voter presses
any button on the EVM
Using “ Close Up / Zoom In “ , the camera
will capture a very sharp and focussed image of the paper slip which is below
the glass panel and displays following details :
# Candidate Serial Number
# Candidate Name
# Candidate’s photo
Using Image Processing Software ,
this IMAGE will get
converted into TEXT, - and get added to
“ Verification Database of EVM # ABC “
[ - with the latest Facial
Recognition technology available commercially, this will pose no problem ]
Each IMAGE – and its corresponding TEXT
will carry a “ System Time Stamp “
When voting at a booth gets over at the
end of the day , this entire database is tallied with the number of votes
registered
That 100 % verification , would take a
few seconds !
That “ 100 % Electronic Audit Tally [ EAT ], will be
immediately shown to the representatives of all the Political parties who are
authorized by the EC to remain present inside the booth
And they will be required to sign a EAT
declaration , confirming the results shown to them
No more arguments / disputes !
Dear Shri Sunil Aroraji,
If you have any doubt re the feasibility
of my suggestion, I request you to contact the manufacturers of the EVMs /
CCTVs / TCS / Infosys / Wipro / L&T Infotech etc
This email is sent to :
complaints@eci.gov.in
gopalaswamin@eci.gov.in
balakrish@eci.gov.in
jaipriye@eci.gov.in
Ball # 3
Ø
Votes Audit :
Paper gives 99.9936% / Electronic gives 100 %.. ….18 Mar 2024
Extract :
With just
4 weeks to go for Lok Sabha Elections, it is too late to arrive at a “Compromise Solution “ for this problem
But, for
State elections to be conducted in 2025 , I request you to consider my following
suggestion to replace VVPAT with EAT ( Electronic Audit Trail ) :
# Modify
VVPAT machine ( whose current approx. cost = Rs 8,000 ). It will have
NO PAPER – just a BLUE TOOTH enabled small electronic device (much like a
mobile phone / wifi router ) – with necessary software
# This
device ( shall we call it EAT ? ) will NOT be
connected ( hard wired ) with
EVM ( as at
present )
# EAT
will be placed on the table of the Registering Clerk , who enters details in
Voter Register / applies ink
# Voter will place her mobile phone on TOP of the EAT , before entering the
voting enclosure
# As
soon as voter selects her candidate and presses the button , that DATA will
get transmitted to EAT . Of course, since EAT does not have a SCREEN , no
one can see the DATA ( viz : Candidate
Name / No / Party symbol )
# In turn , this ( Voter’s choice ) DATA, will get
transmitted to voter’s mobile ( as
password protected SMS ) – And to
the Central Server of
the Election
Commission. Voter can now see the DATA using password.
Data will visible
only for 10 minutes from voting time
# After
casting her vote , Voter will pick up her mobile from top of EAT . This
removal will erase the DATA from the memory of EAT and it will turn
blank – ready to receive the mobile of the next voter
( activation )
Advantages
:
( A )
This
solution will guarantee 100 % voter audit , without increasing the work of
Election
Commission. All political parties will support it, since this is their own
demand
( B )
As each
vote gets cast , the data can get dynamically updated on the web site of
the
Election Commission. Without revealing voter identity or the identity of the
political
party , public will get to see the TREND of voting, such as :
# Number
of Votes cast / Percentage of votes cast ( up to the minute ) / Of
course, no revelation of who is leading / trailing – which will be
left to the
analysts of TV channels
( C )
Final
result will not require ANY COUNTING ( aggregating and uploading data from
55 lakh
EVM ) , since uploading is continuously taking place ,every second, from
all over
the country in REAL TIME. Election results of each of 542 seats, can
become
visible WITHIN MINUTES of the last vote cast !
Thank You , Hon Justices ,
Shri
Sanjiv Khannaji
Shri
Dipankar Dattaji
- For suggested to the Election Commission (EC) to explore the possibility of
devising an “electronic machine” to count the VVPAT paper slips
with regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.HemenParekh.ai / 27
April 2024
