Through PTI
NEW DELHI: Ever questioned why digital vote casting machines, utilized in 4 Lok Sabha elections and 127 meeting polls since 2004, aren’t deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, participants of Rajya Sabha, and participants of state legislative councils? The EVMs are according to a era the place they paintings as aggregators of votes in direct elections such because the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
Citizens press the button in opposition to the title of the candidate in their selection and the person who baggage the utmost collection of votes is said elected.
However the election of the President is held in keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote.
In keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote, each and every elector can mark as many personal tastes, as there are applicants contesting the election.
Those personal tastes for the applicants are to be marked via the elector, via striking the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, in opposition to the names of the applicants, within the order of choice, within the area equipped in column 2 of the poll paper.
In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, sponsored via the opposition are the 2 applicants.
The EVMs, officers defined, aren’t designed to sign in the program of vote casting.
The EVM is an aggregator of votes and underneath the gadget of proportional illustration, the device must compute votes according to choice and it calls for an altogether other era.
In different phrases, a special form of EVM can be wanted.
Consistent with the August, 2021 factor of ‘My Vote Issues’, a quarterly mag of the Election Fee, since 2004, EVMs had been utilized in 4 Lok Sabha and 127 meeting elections.
Consistent with the EC web page, first conceived in 1977 within the Election Fee, the Electronics Company of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad used to be assigned the duty to design and broaden EVMs.
In 1979 a prototype used to be evolved, which used to be demonstrated via the Election Fee prior to the representatives of political events on August 6, 1980.
The Bharat Digital Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, any other public-sector enterprise, used to be co-opted together with ECIL to fabricate EVMs as soon as a large consensus used to be reached on its creation.
The machines have been first used within the meeting election in Kerala in Might, 1982.
Alternatively, the absence of a selected legislation prescribing its use resulted in the Preferrred Court docket hanging down that election.
Therefore, in 1989, Parliament amended the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951 to create a provision for the usage of EVMs in elections.
A normal consensus on its creation might be reached most effective in 1998 and those have been utilized in 25 legislative meeting constituencies unfold throughout Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Within the meeting elections held in Might 2001 within the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, the EVMs have been utilized in all of the meeting constituencies.
Since then, for each and every state meeting election, the Fee has used the EVMs.
Within the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, greater than 10 lakh EVMs have been utilized in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the rustic.
NEW DELHI: Ever questioned why digital vote casting machines, utilized in 4 Lok Sabha elections and 127 meeting polls since 2004, aren’t deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, participants of Rajya Sabha, and participants of state legislative councils? The EVMs are according to a era the place they paintings as aggregators of votes in direct elections such because the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
Citizens press the button in opposition to the title of the candidate in their selection and the person who baggage the utmost collection of votes is said elected.
However the election of the President is held in keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote.
In keeping with the gadget of proportional illustration by the use of unmarried transferable vote, each and every elector can mark as many personal tastes, as there are applicants contesting the election.
Those personal tastes for the applicants are to be marked via the elector, via striking the figures 1,2,3, 4, 5 and so forth, in opposition to the names of the applicants, within the order of choice, within the area equipped in column 2 of the poll paper.
In Monday’s election Droupadi Murmu of the NDA and Yashwant Sinha, sponsored via the opposition are the 2 applicants.
The EVMs, officers defined, aren’t designed to sign in the program of vote casting.
The EVM is an aggregator of votes and underneath the gadget of proportional illustration, the device must compute votes according to choice and it calls for an altogether other era.
In different phrases, a special form of EVM can be wanted.
Consistent with the August, 2021 factor of ‘My Vote Issues’, a quarterly mag of the Election Fee, since 2004, EVMs had been utilized in 4 Lok Sabha and 127 meeting elections.
Consistent with the EC web page, first conceived in 1977 within the Election Fee, the Electronics Company of India Ltd. (ECIL), Hyderabad used to be assigned the duty to design and broaden EVMs.
In 1979 a prototype used to be evolved, which used to be demonstrated via the Election Fee prior to the representatives of political events on August 6, 1980.
The Bharat Digital Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, any other public-sector enterprise, used to be co-opted together with ECIL to fabricate EVMs as soon as a large consensus used to be reached on its creation.
The machines have been first used within the meeting election in Kerala in Might, 1982.
Alternatively, the absence of a selected legislation prescribing its use resulted in the Preferrred Court docket hanging down that election.
Therefore, in 1989, Parliament amended the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951 to create a provision for the usage of EVMs in elections.
A normal consensus on its creation might be reached most effective in 1998 and those have been utilized in 25 legislative meeting constituencies unfold throughout Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Within the meeting elections held in Might 2001 within the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, the EVMs have been utilized in all of the meeting constituencies.
Since then, for each and every state meeting election, the Fee has used the EVMs.
Within the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, greater than 10 lakh EVMs have been utilized in all 543 parliamentary constituencies of the rustic.
