Election Commission of India appears to be more interested in technology than democracy. The latter, they have taken for granted, perhaps abiding by the diktat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that India is the ‘mother of all democracies.’
The ECI is, at present, busy with preparations for the hosting of a global conference on ‘Initiatives in the use of Technology in Elections’ scheduled for January 23-26, 2023. The conference is dedicated to the cause of ‘enhancing voter participation through technology integration.’
While showing excessive obsession with technology, ECI has disregarded the non-compliance to ‘democracy principles’ in EVM voting and counting which is destroying the sanctity of India’s electoral process. These ‘democracy principles’ stipulate that each voter has the knowledge and capacity to verify that his or her vote is cast-as-intended, recorded-as-cast and counted-as-recorded.
ECI is also deliberately ignoring the fact that technology-obsession is morphing India’s democracy from the will of the people to the whim of the machines.
As if to rub it in, ECI has announced its plan for remote voting for domestic migrants saying that it has developed a prototype Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting
— source thewire.in | M.G. Devasahayam | 06/Jan/2023