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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Troubling New Concerns About Election Commission And EVMs: 10 Facts -Divyanshu Dutta Roy

Troubling New Concerns About Election Commission And EVMs: 10 Facts -Divyanshu Dutta Roy

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published Published on Apr 12, 2018   modified Modified on Apr 12, 2018
-NDTV (with inputs from IANS)
 
RTI responses on EVMs have highlighted irregularities in everything from the number of voting machines the Election Commission bought to the price it paid for them.

New Delhi:
Responses to a series of Right to Information requests have thrown up multiple red flags in the Election Commission's acquisition and use of EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines. From huge inconsistencies in the records of the machines acquired by the poll body to mysterious gaps in transportation logs and inexplicable revisions in the specifications of the units, information requests filed by a Mumbai-based RTI activist Manoranjan S Roy have presented a deeply worrying picture of the critical election instrument India has relied upon for nearly three decades.

Here is your 10-point guide to this big story:

1. EVMs have been used in India since 1989. They comprise of a Balloting Unit or BU and a Control Unit and CU, and recently, Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail or VVPAT. These are currently manufactured by only two state-run companies - Electronics Corp of India Ltd or ECIL in Hyderabad and Bharat Electronics Ltd or BEL in Bengaluru.

2. Mr Roy's queries revealed that from 1989-90 till May 15, 2017, the Election Commission purchased over 10 lakh BUs and 9.28 lakh CUs from BEL, and another 10.14 lakh BUs and 9.34 lakh CUs from ECIL. A query to the Law Ministry, however, showed that the government in 2016-17 had received information about the purchase of 13.95 lakh BUs and 9.3 lakh CUs.

3. According to Mr Roy, against the figures provided by the Election Commission on the number of EVMs received, BEL and ECIL have submitted data with huge differences, at times ranging from several thousands to lakhs of EVMs.

4. On the questions of payments too, major discrepancies came out in the figures from 2006-07 to 2016-17. Against the Election Commission's "actual expenditure" of about Rs. 536 crore on voting machines, the BEL reply said it received from body a payment of around Rs. 652 crore - a difference of over Rs. 116 crore.

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NDTV, 11 April, 2018, https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/troubling-new-concerns-about-election-commission-and-evms-10-facts-1835805


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