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Your vote
would soon get printed as proof: Poll panel chief
Friday February 04, 2011 07:37:14 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Cast your
vote by pressing a button on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)
but eager to see proof on paper that your candidate has indeed got
the vote? The Election Commission is working on a special printing
process of ballots.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), S.Y. Quraishi said Friday the
poll panel is working on a method that will ensure voters get to
see a printed proof of the vote cast.
"We are working on a printing process by which when you cast your
vote through an EVM, a printer in front of you will print your
choice and it will be dropped in a box," he said.
"The printer will be behind a glass wall so that you can only see
it and be satisfied that your vote has indeed gone to your
preferred candidate. However, receipts of ballots cast is not
considered, because it may pose a threat to the voter's security
once he or she goes out of the booth," he added.
Speaking in favour of EVMs, he said: "Personally I feel that the
chances of mechanical failure is more than electronic failure. Our
EVMs are very good, they are not networked, so they don't receive
any signal. And they can't be worked upon an operating systems, so
there is no question of tinkering," he said.
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