India

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India
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People
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M. Gandhi
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J. Nehru
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M. Jinnah
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S. Patel
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B.R. Ambedkar
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Indira Sanjay Gandhi
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R. Gandhi
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A. B. Vajpayee
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M. Singh
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Rupee
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City
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Village
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Suburb
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Voting
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Indian Ballot
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Election Commission of IndiaA
State-of-the-Art, User Friendlyand Tamper
ProofElectronic Voting Machine(EVM)
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Ballot paper awaiting despatch
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EVMs in store room
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Left Ballot box being carried to the
polling station Right EVMs being carried to the
polling station
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Voters waiting to cast their vote
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Voting the Ballot box way
Voting the EVM way
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Sub-Units of EVM
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Ballot Unit - Details
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Ballot Unit - Internal parts
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Control Unit
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Control Unit - View of Bottom Compartment
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Control Unit - Display Section
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Control Unit - Candidate Set Section
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Control Unit - Result Section
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Control Unit - Ballot Section
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Polling

• The voter is identified from the voters list and
  records his presence by a signature or thumb
  impression
• The Presiding Officer presses the Ballot button
  on the Control Unit permitting one vote
• The voter then proceeds to the polling cubicle
  and after perusing the ballot paper on the Ballot
  Unit, presses the key against the candidate of
  his choice

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Polling

• A red lamp glows indicating to the voter that his
  vote has been cast in favour of that candidate
• The casting of the vote results in a beep in the
  Control Unit indicating to the Presiding Officer
  that a vote has been cast
• He then proceeds to release another vote by
  pressing the Ballot button and the process
  continues

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Statistics of Interest

• Around one million machines deployed during Lok
  Sabha, 2004 polls
• Low failure rate
• Costs around US 300
• Estimated saving on the switchover to EVM is
  Approx US 40 million
• Political Parties and Intelligentsia who
  initially were skeptical now endorse the machine
  for its veracity

EVM being demonstrated to voters before the
recent elections held in the state of Jammu
Kashmir