Recently the Election Commission of India gave a “Hackathon challenge” for political parties and countless ‘hackers’ to prove that EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines can be rigged. The world praises the concept of E-Voting. Let’s delve into the endless horizons of Elections and eVoting.
1.This vote-buying practice crafted in Bosnia and Herzegovina includes a party activist handing out filled ballot papers to voters before the polling stations and the voter return with an empty ballot. During the European Parliament election in June 2009, 200,000-350,000 votes were sold. What is the term called?
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed to buy 16,15,000 of these units in the General Elections 2019. When the voter presses the button against the name of the candidate of her or his choice on the EVM unit, this will generate a paper slip, also called ‘ballot slip’. What are we talking about?
3.‘i-Voting’, is a system that allows voters to cast their ballots from any internet-connected computer, anywhere in the world. In 2005, this country became the first country in the world to hold nation-wide elections through this and in 2007 it used it in parliamentary elections. Identify the country.
4. This verb means drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party. In 1812 Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry redrew district boundaries which looked like an amphibian, so they combined his name with the name of the amphibian to create this term. What is it?
5. In 1991, Julien Anno filed a patent application for a modern electronic ballot marker. The Jites and Digivote systems of electronic voting used in this country are similar to that, although they use magnetic stripe cards instead of bar codes. Identify the country.
For the readers
QFor the first time 1.2 million people cast their votes electronically in the country’s fifth election since independence. It became the first in Africa to use electronic voting. Bharat Electronics Ltd. supplied 5,850 customised EVMs to the Electoral Commission of this country by creating history. Identify the country.
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Answers:
1) Bulgarian train, 2) VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail) 3)Estonia,
4) Gerrymandering (amphibian was Salamander), 5) Belgium
