Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland Abhijit Sinha addressing the workshop held in Kohima on February 6. (Morung Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | February 6
Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland today conducted a state level workshop with political parties on use of EVM with VVPATs Hotel Japfu. Representatives for political parties like NDPP, NPF, BJP, NPP, Congress and others attended the workshop.
Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland Abhijit Sinha made a presentation on EVM and VVPAT where the history, description of Technical Expert Committee (TEC), the technical security and the administrative safeguards were elaborated upon.
He said that EVM was first used in 70-Parur Assembly Constituency of Kerala in 1982.
Sinha also talked about the past judgments on EVMs by various High Courts and the Supreme Court wherein the credibility and reliability of the machine has always been upheld.
CEO added that EVM and VVPAT have been devised and designed by the Technical Experts Committee (TEC) of the Election Commission in collaboration with two Public Sector undertaking vis-a-vis, Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore and Electronic Corporation of India Ltd, Hyderabad and is secured with high security protocol
The online search of names in the Electoral roll, registration, deletion and downloading of electoral roll was also demonstrated to the participants.
To check enrollment, deletion or any other queries or clarification one can log into ceonagaland.nic.in and www.nvsp.in
Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballotless voting system.
A VVPAT is intended as an independent verification system for voting machines designed to allow voters to verify that their vote was cast correctly, to detect possible election fraud or malfunction, and to provide a means to audit the stored electronic results.
It contains the name of the candidate (for whom vote has been cast) and symbol of the party/individual candidate.
A VVPAT allows voters the possibility to verify that their votes are cast as intended and can serve as an additional barrier to changing or destroying votes. The VVPAT includes a direct recording electronic voting system (DRE), to assure voters that their votes have been recorded as intended.
According to CEO Nagaland, VVPAT is further going to increase transparency and reliability in poll process. VVPAT will be used in all the polling stations in all the elections. VVPAT will be kept in voting compartment along with ballot unit. VVPAT has a small transparent window behind which a printed paper slip will appear when the ballot unit is pressed. The printed paper slip will display the name, serial number and election symbol of the candidate for seven seconds to the voter. After seven second the printed paper slip will automatically get cut and drop in the sealed box below.
