The document discusses improving India's electoral system through the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs). It notes that the 2009 Lok Sabha elections had issues like a lack of voter receipts, limited EVM capacity, and poor voter outreach and participation. It proposes solutions for the next Lok Sabha elections like providing voter receipts, allowing open audits of EVMs, making EVMs more ubiquitous to increase access and participation, and reducing costs through single-phase polling. The goal is to make the electoral process more transparent, trustworthy, and inclusive.

1. EVM
safeguarding democracy
Anupam Saraph, PhD, Democracy activist

2. democracy is a set of game rules that,
in their gradual process towards perfection,
independent individuals and organizations in a civil society seek to
maximize their interests using transparent and nonviolent means
@zuola

4. 2009

6. EVMs come to polling booths

7. People go to EVMs

8. 2009 Lok Sabha
Total EVM's used: 1.025 million
Operational speed of EVMs: maximum of 5 votes per minute
Number of votes one EVM can register: 3,840
Number of candidates an EVM can hold: maximum of 64

10. Is the vote in the box?

11. 6th May 2009
10 days before polling was over
files downloaded from
ECI had votes polled data

12. 16 th May 2009
When counting was over
files downloaded from
ECI had no votes polled data

13. How can EVM votes be guaranteed to be the
peoples mandate?

14. How can the conductor of polls certify
them to be free or fair?

15. How can the widening voting divide
be bridged?

16. Receipts

17. Voter Receipts

19. Audits

20. Open-Architecture Audits

21. http://eci.gov.in/AuditTheElection

22. Access to vote numbers
Access to voter ID
Info on legitimate
votes at each
polling station
Info on legitimate
voters at a polling
booth
Info on legitimate votes
polled at a polling station
Access to candidate numbers
Info on legitimate votes
polled for each candidate
at a polling station Access to polling officer ID

23. Bridge the voting divide

24. Take EVMs to people

25. Take EVMs to people

26. 45,000 ATMs 471 million mobile
subscribers
127 million phones capable of internet access

27. 45 million internet users
13 million DTH subscribers
37 million land line phones

28. 675 million registered voters
380 million voted in 2009 Lok Sabha
828,804 polling stations in 2009 Lok Sabha

29. Lower costs!

30. Single Phase

31. EVM Safeguards
Provide receipts
Open- audits
ubiquitous EVMs

32. democracy is a set of game rules that,
in their gradual process towards perfection, independent
individuals and organizations in a civil society seek to maximize
their interests using transparent and nonviolent means
@zuola

33. voting is a game of expression of interests where,
in its gradual process towards perfection,
independent individuals and organizations in a democracy seek to
maximize their involvement using transparent and nonviolent means
@anupamsaraph

34. 2009 Lok Sabha
Voter Receipts: none
Conducting of Polls: Huge paraphernelia
Certification of Polls: by conductor of polls
Outreach: Huge Voting divide
Cost: more than 10,000 crores

35. 2009 Lok Sabha
Not inspiring confidence or trust
Non-transparent
Controversial
Poor participation
Inconvenient and multi-phase

36. Next Lok Sabha
Total EVM's used:472 million
Operational speed of EVMs: unlimited votes per minute
Number of votes one EVM can register: unlimited
Number of candidates an EVM can hold: unlimited

37. Next Lok Sabha
Voter Receipts: 2 part
Conducting of Polls: no paraphernelia
Certification of Polls: by anyone
Outreach: to every voter
Cost: fraction of previous

38. Next Lok Sabha
Double-record accounting with receipt
Highly transparent
Third party independent open audits
Easy polling with larger participation
Safer, convenient single-phase polling