It is understood that IAC & Maulik Bharat have been taking up various election related issues with CEC. There was also a discussion on the possibility of voting machines being tempered with. It was stated that any manipulation of machines will be taken care of by issueing a printed slip/paper trail, indicating the party to which vote has been registered, to the voter. However such an arrangment can have other problems.
It is well known that parties pay cash to voters, however in the absence of any proof the voter can still vote for his choice of candidate if he so desires, once the paper slips indicating the party for which the vote has been registered are issued, then parties will obviously demand slips and then make the payment. In other words selling the vote will be more practical and reliable. In any case since the data in machine chips can be manipulated remotely after machines are sealed such paper trails will serve no purpose.
It is therefor suggested that Election Commission be approached and requested to refrain from issueing any slip, counterfoil, paper trail or whatso ever which indicates the party to which vote has been registered.
Harendra Singh
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