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Gujarat
High Court seeks details of EVM, e-voters
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat High Court, hearing a public interest litigation (PIL)
against introduction of online voting in local self-government
bodies polls, has sought details of voters who cast ballot through
the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and e-voting.
In details available Wednesday, a bench of Chief Justice S.J.
Mukhopadhaya and Justice Anant Dave, allowing the state government
and others to file affidavit in this regard, sought to know the
method the state election commission or the presiding officer
adopted for supervising the voting.
Two Congress leaders of Ahmedabad had filed the PIL against the
state government's decision to amend the provisions of the Bombay
Provincial Municipal Corporation (BPMC) Act and introduce online
voting. Former city mayor Himmatsinh Patel and another Congress
leader in their petition claimed that such amendment was against
constitutional provisions.
According to the PIL, the election process has to be free and fair
and the ballot has to be secret in any election. They alleged that
recent amendments made to the BPMC Act were in violation of the
constitutional mandate.
They also feared that the privacy of e-vote would be compromised
in absence of any safeguard to it. "There is no safeguard to make
sure that the person has voted in isolation and as per his own
wish," the petitioners contended.
The petitioners pointed out the possibilities of virus attacks
that could vitiate the entire database of e-votes and result in a
major election fraud.
Following the petition, the court issued notices to the
respondents - the state of Gujarat, the chief secretary of the
state urban development department and the chief election officer
of the state election commission.
The matter is slated to come up Dec 15.
Gujarat became the first state in India to introduce online voting
when the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation polls were held this
month.
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