Yesterday was elections where we live.
I noticed that on the Electronic Voting Machind, the candidates from the 2 main parties - BJP and Congress were placed next to each other.
Anyway, I registered my vote but to my surprise, the button next to it lit up.
I thought, at the time, that i had pressed the wrong button.
But since the other button belonged to a party that is responsible for the massacre of my family members, I just could not let it go.
All day and all evening, I kept thinking of how I could have pressed the wrong button.
And at night, I focused the brain to go back to the moment the button was pressed. The symbol of the candidate is to the left. Which symbol was it when I was pressing the button??
It was the right symbol. I did press the intended button, but the machine registered my vote differently.
I understand this is a serious accusation, and there is no way of proving it bcs there is no CCTV camera inside the booth, but I know what happened here.
Incidentally, only one party created a ruckus saying that the EVMs can be tampered. It was the party that 'erroneously' got my vote yesterday.
Even if no one knows, I know.
Update: The results were announced and the party who got my vote unintentionally still lost. Surprisingly, only in my state, they started talking about an EVM malfunction. No other state where they lost, did they allege EVM malfunction. My sense is that they expected some amount of ground votes (real votes) and some amount of EVM rigging, and that would be the way to win elections. But the rigging did not quite compensate for the lack of ground votes, hence the frustration. However, after this, i will never allege that EVMs are incorruptible. I stand corrected through personal anecdotal experience.
2 comments:
ऐसा भी होता है !!
maine bhi pehli baar dekha. :)
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