We continue to raise doubts about the electronic voting machine. It is not the electronic voting machine that we should be suspicious of; It should be understood that it is on the commission that conducts the election.
In a huge country like India with 97 crore voters, it is very difficult to conduct elections through ballot papers. It also has to wait for weeks to complete the ballot counting. And separate officers should be appointed only to count the invalid votes in the ballot system.
Electronic voting machine was implemented keeping in mind many such problems.
Ever since the introduction of the voting machine, there have been doubts about it. The Election Commission has been answering and addressing that doubt from time to time. Also, a voter can know for whom he has voted through the VVPAD, thus reducing the suspicion of the electronic machine to some extent.
In this situation, during the 18th Lok Sabha elections, people began to have doubts about the functioning of the Election Commission before and after the announcement of the election date. Even after the counting of votes, that doubt continues.
Is the Election Commission functioning for the purpose for which it was created? Questions are constantly being raised whether the Election Commission is functioning independently or being run by someone else.
One of the two Election Commissioners, Arun Goyal, suddenly resigned on March 9, a week before the date for the Lok Sabha polls was announced. Subsequently, two new commissioners are appointed. Why this sudden departure? Addition?
If the election commissioner is to be appointed, why did they change the rule that the selection should be based on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and why did the Supreme Court remove the Chief Justice and add the Home Minister? How can a Prime Minister belonging to one party accept that the Election Commission, which is chosen on the advice of the Home Minister, will act neutrally? What guarantees it?
Elections were held in 7 phases starting from 19th April till 1st June. Why did the first five phases of voter registration not be published officially on the Commission’s website and only publish the percentage of votes registered after four or five days and confuse the people? After the demands made by the opposition parties and social activists, why did the votes recorded in five phases on May 25 be published on the Internet? In this way people are constantly doubting the Election Commission.
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After the counting of votes, the Commission has further suspected that there are discrepancies between the registered votes and the counted votes published on the official website of the Election Commission.
The Election Commission, which has to act neutrally in a country, must realize that if its position fails, that country will also face a huge dilemma.
