Digvijaya questions VVPAT mechanism, says it should be a manual to 'silence objectors'

The former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh took to Twitter on Tuesday, February 11 and questioned EC over the VVPAT’s (Voter-verified paper audit trail) working mechanism. He suggested that the voters should be manually given the slips that are dropped in the VVPAT machine after a seven-second visual. He further stated that this manual exercise should be followed by randomly counting five ballot boxes in an assembly segment. 

Digvijaya Singh on VVPAT’s mechanism 

After suggesting the change to “silence” the people over the credibility of Election Commission, Digvijaya Singh stated that the Chief Election Commissioner and the Supreme Court should have a fresh look at the EVM mechanism in India. He spoke about how transparency of EVM is important and the mandate of 1.3 billion people should not be stolen by malpractices like “hacking”.

Singh further said that the counting of votes from five random ballot boxes of an assembly segment in 2019 LS polls was successful, however, the process of entering the paper in VVPAT should be manual. Have a look at the series of tweets posted by him 

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Digvijaya Singh on EVM hacking 

Talking about how the EVM machines can be hacked, the Congress leader highlighted that no developed country uses EVM for the purpose of voting. He stated that any machine with a chip can’t be tamper-proof. He also shared a video where a hacker was explaining how easy it was to hack voting machines.

Kapil Sibal on Election Commission

Talking about how the EC has gone soft, Kapil Sibal in an interview on Sunday, February 9, said, “The Election Commission cannot be questioned. But we are really upset with EC’s views in the last few years. When it comes to PM Modi and his Union Ministers, EC is hardly seen registering any information reports. This is not what I am saying, this is what the ex-Chief Election Commissioner, Mr Qureshi has said.” 

“This shows that the Election Commission is somewhat soft. Some small states go for polling in five phases while a state as big as Gujrat polls in only one phase. I don’t understand this. This is not an institution run by the government, they work for the country. If they don’t protect the Constitution of India, the democracy will be under threat,” added Sibal. 

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