One of the biggest democratic countries in the world - INDIA has finally chosen its new Government. Earlier days, the elections were done through ballot papers, but with changing and advancing technology, the process of election has gone DIGITAL, Now we have Electronic Voting Machines (EVM)s. The entire process of election is based on belief of billions of people. There may be versions that EVMs can be tampered with. But these machines are subjected to extremely tough review systems and are released only after taking into account of all probable pros and cons.
I am not writing any details on whether or not these EVMs can be hacked. No, my intention is certainly not to drag the discussion in this direction. So, I will take a help of a small story. In my village, we had a small Ganapathy Temple on top of the mountain quite close to my school. My Hindu friends invariably will visit that temple and offer their prayers. We had so many friends from other religion as well, even though they would not visit our temple, but they will respect our faith and belief. Whether to visit temple or not is just the matter of belief. Nobody can / must question that belief. Afterall, none of us have seen any God moving around that temple. It is just our belief and we pray that Lord Ganapathy resides in that temple. WE offer our prayers with full belief. Being a Hindu, how will you feel if somebody questions your belief ? FAITH doesn't have any evidences to be proven correct or wrong. So is the case with EVMs. For all said and done, if a voter is made to believe that these EVMs can be hacked. What would be your view on a person standing in the hot Sun, waiting for his turn to vote. A old lady, who stood in the voters' que till late night to get her turn to vote. Or a first-time voter who went all the way in the morning itself to cast his vote ? Are we here to make fool of all these voters to convince them that EVMs can be hacked ? If the philosophy of EVM hack is trust-worthy, then why is it that about 65% to 80% of voters still cast their votes standing in que ? Are we not questioning the belief of these voters ? When a certain party WINS an election, the EVMs are functioning correctly, and when they loose, the entire blame on the EVMs. The group of people who are very well convinced that the EVMs can be hacked .... they must completely boycott the election, and when their number increases by more than 50%, then only it can be believed that EVMs are faulty. As long as a large population of voters have belief in voting (as seen through the percentage of polling), the EVMs must not be looked with suspicion. Voters have their views very very clear.......they believe EVMs, and that is why they are casting their votes. But to a great surprise to me, several leaders who question EVMs, they never boycott election. They never exit the election. They actually contest the election, they cast their votes, they do all possible things to win the election, and when nothing works in their favour, they question EVMs. These leaders are called the NEGATIVE LEADERS and I am quite happy that 2019 elections has taught a convincing lesson to them. [ DISCLAIMER ] All content provided on this web-page blog is for informational purposes only. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner of this website will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. This terms and conditions is subject to change at anytime with or without notice.
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Govindan Kutty
28/5/2019 16:00:24
NIce Article Subbu....
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