From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 1:07 PM
To: 'Cabinet Ministers'; 'BJP National Executive'; 'psfs@mea.gov.in'; 'Rajeev.kher@ris.org.in'; 'Sanjeev@sanjeevsanyal.com'; 'Pulak.ghosh@iimb.ac.in'; 'amb-indiawto@nic.in'; 'rajiv@luthra.com'; 'Editors'; 'cb@cii.in'; 'prakash.j@sansad.nic.in'; 'Loksabha1'; 'Loksabha2'; 'Rajyasabha'; 'manifesto@inc.in'; 'complaints@eci.gov.in'; 'gopalaswamin@eci.gov.in'; 'balakrish@eci.gov.in'; 'jaipriye@eci.gov.in'
Cc: 'ssbhalla@gmail.com'; 'bibek.debroy@gov.in'; 'ashima@igidr.ac.in'; 'rr1@nipfp.org.in'; 'ratanp.watal@gov.in'; 'ceo-niti@nic.in'; 'Indian Think Tanks'; 'Gurudatt Kundapurkar'; 'Haridas Shenoy'; 'Pradeep Talpade'; 'amit.doshi@dbcorp.in'; 'amitabh.kant@nic.in'; 'admin@narendramodi.in'; 'BJP-Dept-Heads'; 'Indrajit Sethi'; 'vch-niti@gov.in'; 'amitshah.bjp@gmail.com'; 'TIMESjourno'; 'DNAjourno'; 'assocham@nic.in'; 'ficci@ficci.com'; 'Economics'; 'Business Leader'; 'TV Anchors'; 'ms1212@gmail.com'; 'K Rajendran'; 'J V Rao'; 'S P Jawalkar'; 'Vivek Shiroor'; 'Sandeep Mishra'
Subject: For Attn : SHRI SUNIL ARORAJI - CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER
Dear Shri Sunil Aroraji ( Chief Election Commissioner )
You may be right ( statistically ) that even with current
method of 10 % verification of paper slips of VVPAT , confidence level of its
accuracy is very high ( at 3 SIGMA Standard Deviation of 99.93 % )
But , here the issue is not in respect of anyone doubting the
soundness of the Statistical Method
The issue is one of MISTRUST - of emotional appeal to the
voters
Now , if a technology based solution can give 100 % VVPAT verification
in 6 SECONDS ( in
stead of Human Verification that may take 6 days )
, then why object ?
I strongly urge you to implement my following suggestion :
100 % verification of VVPAT ? No
problem !
During
hearing on 25 March , Supreme Court asked Election Commission to examine the
possibility of carrying out 100
% verification of paper slips , as demanded by the Opposition parties
Last
week , EC came back and said :
Even
50 % verification
will delay the declaration of election results by 6 days
Hence,
100 % verification was out of question
Observing that the current confidence
level in EVM-VVPAT accuracy was 99.9936%, the ECI said any increase in the sample size of
verification of VVPAT slips would only lead to a “ very negligible gain in the
confidence level ”.
Now, it is too late for the upcoming
elections within the next few days , but I urge EC to consider following suggestion for the next election ( even the very next State Election ) :
Just above the EVM , mount a CCTV camera ,
which is connected with the EVM and gets actuated as soon as the voter presses
any button on the EVM
Using “ Close Up / Zoom In “ , the camera
will capture a very sharp and focussed image of the paper slip which is below
the glass panel and displays following details :
# Candidate Serial Number
# Candidate Name
# Candidate’s photo
Using Image Processing Software ,
This IMAGE will get converted into TEXT,
- and
Get added to “ Verification Database of EVM # ABC “
[ - with the latest Facial Recognition technology available commercially, this will pose no problem ]
Each IMAGE – and its corresponding TEXT
will carry a “ System Time
Stamp “
When voting at a booth gets over at the
end of the day , this
entire database is tallied with the number of votes registered
That 100 %
verification , would take a few seconds !
That “ 100 % Electronic Audit Tally [ EAT ], will be immediately shown
to the representatives of all the Political parties who are authorized by the
EC to remain present inside the booth
And they will be required to sign a EAT declaration ,
confirming the results shown to them
No more arguments / disputes !
===============================================================
Dear Shri Sunil Aroraji,
If you have any doubt re the feasibility
of my suggestion, I request you to contact the manufacturers of the EVMs /
CCTVs / TCS / Infosys / Wipro / L&T Infotech etc
This email is sent to :
================================================================
02 April 2019
Rsvp ; hcp@RecruitGuru.com
No comments:
Post a Comment