India’s Vulnerable Electronic Voting Machines

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India’s much vaunted EVM machines are prone to manipulation [YouTube link] and can be used to alter election results. Great work by EVM India. Unfortunately, instead of addressing the problems, one of the Indian involved in this discovery, Hari Prasad was soon arrested by the Indian government. Sounds like a credible conspiracy theory in progress, right?

“India’s Vulnerable Electronic Voting Machines” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3628] was published Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 12:20 pm by Patrix, filed under India, Videos, and tagged as elections, electronic, fraud, India, Law. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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The term “conspiracy theory” has a negative connotation associated with it. In this particular case, the intent to intimidate and silence is fairly apparent. I had penned my thoughts on this “conspiracy theory”, if you will, and I have a strong suspicion that the vulnerability of EVMs is a ‘feature not a bug’.
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@Semantic Overload: I’m aware of its connotation but I’m still hopeful that the conspiracy doesn’t exist. Certain vulnerabilities have been pointed out and yes, Hari Prasad’s arrest does not bode well but we need a Wikileaks-type whistleblowing to know if there is fire behind all that smoke.
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@Patrix: Hate to be the pessimist here, but all empirical evidence from traditional booth capturing to partisan opposition on all issues except MP pay hike, from Suresh Kalmadi to Thelka exposes, point to a very very strong possibility that there is nothing innocent about the arrest and intimidation.
The fact that ECI didn’t allow any investigator to get anywhere with 20 feet of an EVM for security analysis and audit suggests that they had something to hide (btw, security through obfuscation has long been discredited, so the idea that the EVM is secure because we don’t give anyone else access to it is ridiculous). Also, if Hari Prasad, someone with no security clearence, can get access to an EVM that easily, then imagine how easy it is for party thugs to do the same thing, only this time use it to rig elections. I haven’t even touched on the Tehelka article that alleges election rigging in 2009.
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@Semantic Overload: I hear ya and I’m inclined to believe in the worst too. Knowing India, it might be completely plausible. I just hope for more proof. Now if only someone in India files an RTI request…

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