Add to manifesto: Ban use of EVMs in elections and go back to paper ballots
EVMs cannot be trusted because there is no way to verify the results. We have no idea how the software is written and even if the source code is available, we cannot verify if the same binary is running on the machine.
Update: At the minimum there has to be a paper trail which can be machine counted
Some discussion about technology and voting https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/21/pirate-party-online-voting-4chan-government
Poll Created Sun 19 Mar 2017 5:59AM
Add to manifesto: Restore trust in election process Closed Wed 29 Mar 2017 6:01AM
We have consensus here and 4 permanent members voted for the proposal
Election process should be beyond doubt and being able to verify the correctness of vote count is a basic requirement. Current Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) does not have a verifications mechanism and makes any kind of tampering impossible to detect. We have to blindly trust there was no tampering.
We will ensure that
a) all EVMs will have a Voter Verifiable Paper Trail (a receipt printed by the EVM which can be put into a ballot box)
or
b) go back to paper ballots
to restore trust in election process.
With a paper trail, voters can verify the correctness of their votes and a manual counting of these paper receipts will make it possible to detect any kind of tampering in case of doubt.
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 7 | |
Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 126 |
7 of 133 people have participated (5%)
Pirate Praveen
Sun 19 Mar 2017 6:01AM
yes, trust in election process is required for democracy and being able to verify results is critical in that.
Bady
Sun 19 Mar 2017 6:06AM
Paper trail seems to be a good idea!
Shanavas M
Sun 19 Mar 2017 6:11AM
Great idea
⚓⚑Arjun⚓⚑
Tue 21 Mar 2017 5:19AM
If not ban, atleast a paper trail would be better for accountability
Alexander Gounder Mon 20 Mar 2017 6:19AM
Pirate Praveen Wed 5 Apr 2017 10:12AM
Now with video, the evidence of tampering http://www.deccanherald.com/content/604227/evm-registers-only-bjp-votes.html (just adding here for completeness).
Pirate Praveen · Fri 17 Mar 2017 8:58AM
That was a good article, thanks for sharing. Read this too http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/news/how-safe-is-the-evm/articleshow/57683989.cms