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India
People
M. Gandhi
J. Nehru
M. Jinnah
S. Patel
B.R. Ambedkar
Indira & Sanjay Gandhi
R. Gandhi
A. B. Vajpayee
M. Singh
Rupee
City
Village
Suburb
Voting
Indian Ballot
Election Commission of
India
A State-of-the-Art, User Friendly
and Tamper Proof
Electronic Voting Machine
(EVM)
Ballot paper awaiting despatch
EVMs in store room
Left:
Ballot box being carried to the polling station
Right: EVMs being carried to the polling station
Voters waiting to cast their vote
Voting the Ballot box way
Voting the EVM way
Sub-Units of EVM
Interconnecting Cable
Control Unit
Ballot Unit
Ballot Unit - Details
Ready Lamp
Slide Switch Window
Candidate’s Button
Candidate’s Lamp
Ballot Paper Screen
Ballot Unit - Internal parts
Ready Lamp
Slide Switch
Candidate’s Button
Masking Tab
Control Unit
ON Lamp
Display Section
Busy Lamp
Candidate Set Section
Result Section
Ballot Section
Ballot Button
Total Button
Control Unit - View of Bottom
Compartment
Power Switch
Connector for
Interconnecting Cable
Bottom Compartment
Cover
Connector for
Auxiliary Unit
Control Unit - Display Section
4-Digit
Display Panel
ON Lamp
Busy Lamp
2-Digit
Display Panel
Control Unit - Candidate Set
Section
Candidate set section
inner door
Candidate set section
outer door
Provision for
thread seal
Latch
Power pack
compartment
Candidate set
button
Plug for
power pack
Provision for
Thread seal
Control Unit - Result Section
Result I
button
Clear button
Close
button
Result II
button
Inner
latches
Frames for
Paper seal
Control Unit - Ballot Section
Total button
Ballot button
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
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
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