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@IndianExpress reported on
@ECISVEEP is one part of the story. There’s more.
The government’s grip on the election process is getting tighter and opaque.
For example, “The entire election machinery, we found, from the manufacturing of EVMs to the software loaded on to them, to the committee appointed to evaluate the software, the so-called third-party auditing this software and much more, is controlled by the Union government and the ECI has very little say.
The same holds true for the pre-election security measures put in place for the machines, such as first-level checking before they are sealed in a warehouse with 24x7 security. Or the random allocation of the machines to constituencies. No officer of the Election Commission is present during any of these exercises. Instead, only officials of the two manufacturers are present, as is the district collector. The Election Commission does not have a say in the allocation of machines to a state, an exercise entrusted once again to the two PSUs. The ECI, however, can track the location of the machines using the EVM Tracking Software.”
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