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EVM Miscounts, VVPATs and the Citizen's Right to a Secret, Verified Ballot -Rajendran Narayanan and Nikhil Dey

-TheWire.in Democracy cannot be held prisoner to random sampling, especially when the EC won’t tell us what happens if a discrepancy between EVM tally and VVPAT slips is detected. “Check one grain of rice, and you will know if the whole vessel of rice is cooked.” This is an analogy that is often used to show that a small sample is enough to be sure of the result. But what happens if someone might have put some poison into the vessel? Is it enough to test one, or even five randomly selected grains? Let us see why this old parable becomes immensely significant as the counting process starts in one of the most vituperative Indian elections. Voters have chosen their candidate by pressing a button on an electronic voting machine (EVM). EVMs are black boxes, so it is impossible for voters to verify whether their votes have been recorded correctly. In India, the addition of the ‘voter verified paper audit trail’ (VVPAT), attached to each EVM, offers a verifiable record of every vote cast. They have been made available in all the polling booths as a mechanism to increase voter confidence. VVPAT slips are displayed to the voter through a small glass window for 7 seconds before dropping into a box. The voter gets to confirm if the candidate chosen by her on the EVM is the same as that which appears on the VVPAT slip. Ironically, it is not the confirmed slip, but the black box EVM that is being counted. For now, the demand for counting all, or many more of the VVPAT slips has been rejected, with the assertion that counting VVPAT slips of five booths per assembly constituency is enough of a safeguard. Going by the parable, we need to know what happens if one of the five grains is found to be defective. As such, we are staring at a huge potential conflict during the counting process. Please click here to access.