CREDIBILITY OF EVM: WHAT ARE THE KEY TAKEAWAYS?
"Voting is not only our right—it is our power." - Loung Ung The controversy over electronic voting machines is not on the verge of ending. No party in the country has not pointed fingers at EVMs. Surprisingly, even those leaders who have achieved tremendous success in the elections are opposing EVMs now or have done so in the past. Be it the President of Rashtriya Janata Dal or the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Apart from these two, the Aam Aadmi Party, the party which won strongly in Delhi, is also demanding a ban on the use of electronic voting machines. For some, if they win the election, the EVM machine is correct and if they lose, they feel that the machine has been tampered with. After BJP's victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Chief Minister of Assam had also raised questions on EVMs. Why EVM Matters in India EVMs prevent the undemocratic influence of muscle power in the electoral process. India's electoral history shows that before the use of EVM ma