Though 97.86 per cent voters feel candidates with criminal background should not be legislators, only 35.20 per cent know they can get information on criminal records of the candidates.
There has been a lot of talk about the strong rooms where our EVMs are kept. What exactly are these so-called super protected rooms?
We can’t remember any election in which Arvind Kejriwal didn’t cry wolf. Not even the 2015 Delhi election, which his party won with a huge majority!
The problem, after all, is not as much with technology as our ability to trust it.
Let's not leave it to luck.
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From delaying announcement of the poll dates to unseeing the brazen disrespect of law by the ruling BJP leaders, the EC has damaged democracy forever.
To suggest that the machines could be tampered with to give a doctored result is beyond comprehension.
The so-called people’s movement against corruption has been exposed, ironically, within two years in power.
The source code of the machine is written by in-house engineers of BEL (defence ministry PSU) and ECIL (atomic energy ministry PSU).
From EVMs to BJP's machinations in Goa and Manipur through governors, the polls were messy.