32. One more way to rig EVMs and benefit one Chosen Party

Article No. 31 on this blog gives one way by which a powerful party, by asking the EVM manufacturer to put a tempered code can benefit itself. This articles describes one more trivially easy way to do the same.

Consider
BELX = A fictitious company which makes EVMs
CECX = Person in charge of dispatching EVMs
CongressX = a hypothetical party which wants to get benefited by tempering EVMs

Step-1 : The EVM manufacturer makes 3 types of EVMs

• Type1 - Honest EVMs
• Type2 - This EVM will increase the votes of the candidate who got second highest votes and decrease the votes of candidate who got highest votes
• Type3 - This EVM will increase the votes of the candidate who got third highest votes and decrease the votes of the candidate who got highest and second highest votes

Step-2 : CongressX will divide 540 seats into 4 groups

• Group1 : where congress is sure to win
• Group2 : where congress is sure to come no. 2
• Group3 : where congress is sure to come no. 3
• Group4 : where congress is sure to come not in no.1 to no.3

This can be done by a careful pre-poll analysis, and will be as much as 80% to 90% accurate.

Step-3: CECX has to dispatch EVMs as follows

• It will send Type1 EVMs to constituencies in Group1 and Group4
• It will send Type2 EVMs to constituencies in Group2
• It will send Type3 EVMs to constituencies in Group3

Hence, the EVMs will favor CongressX.

Example : in Gandhinagar seat, CongressX is sure to come no.2 and BJP is sure to come No.1 So if Type-2 EVMs are sent to Gandhinagar Constituency, then CongressX will win. Now sending such EVMs to Gandhinagar will expose the game as BJP leads by a huge margin. But in seats where picture is not clear, CongressX can win by sending EVMs of Type2 and Type3.

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The moral of the story is : there are simply too many ways to rig EVMs. So we have no choice but to get rid of EVMs and use paper ballots with camera in booth.