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By Y. Mallikarjun
HYDERABAD, MARCH 5. After the Parliament and Assembly elections, the electors of local bodies can now have e-voting facility with the Electronic Corporation of India Limited developing Electronic Voting Machines suited to their needs. The `multi-post, multi-vote' EVM is distinct in colour, connectivity and has an innovative feature -- Detachable Memory Module (DMM) which provides for storage and transfer of data, in addition to the built-in memory. The DMM was incorporated to enable the release of the machine for next elections, while retaining the storage data for future use.
Successful trials
Some 2,500 EVMs will be used in municipal elections in Maharashtra next month and another 5,000 in West Bengal in June, J. B. Venkata Ratnam, General Manager, Electronics Manufacturing Services Division, ECIL, told The Hindu here on Saturday. The EVMs would be despatched to Maharashtra and West Bengal by the month-end. They were successfully tried in the by-elections held to local bodies recently in Nagpur, Chandrapur and Wardha. Unlike the regular EVM, which has single post, single vote or double post, single vote mode, the new machine caters to multiple posts (up to eight). With four ballot units connected to the main control unit, the EVM provides for a total of 52 contesting candidates for eight posts.
Options
It allows the elector to choose more than one candidate for the same post (three vice-presidents or two general secretaries). Another unique feature of the latest EVM is that it has under-voting facility. F or instance, if a voter is interested in opting for only two of the eight posts, he can do so by pressing the end button. Mr. Venkata Ratnam said EVMs were tamper-proof, voter-friendly, cost-effective and caused less physical strain to the polling staff. Orders were expected from many more States in the coming months and ECIL was geared to meet the requirement. He said there was good response at the State Election Commissioners' conference held at Pune a fortnight ago where the ECIL demonstrated the EVMs. The conference recommended their use in the elections to local bodies. He said that following a request from the Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh SECs last year, ECIL produced a developmental model and subsequently made a fully engineered version. The cost of each EVM is Rs. 10,000, the same as the regular one. Following the successful use of EVMs on a mega scale during the Assembly and Parliament elections last year, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and some African countries had shown keen interest in them.
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