Yaxit Patel
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Why was Black Glass installed in VVPATs in 2017?
EVM-VVPAT Hatao Sena
How up to 30% votes or more can be stolen using the EVM VVPAT's Black Glass & Light Sensor, without leaving any evidence.
Shri Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta (a computer engineer, scientist, & lawyer, educated at IIT Delhi & Rutgers University, USA, and an EVM expert since 1989) came to know in 2019 that in 2017 the glass of the EVM's VVPAT had been changed from transparent to opaque / black, and the duration of the light inside the VVPAT had been reduced from 15 seconds to 7 seconds. In January 2019, when Mr. Rahul C. Mehta became aware of these two changes, he raised concerns about how they could enable the theft /manipulation of VVPAT paper votes, also while counting the electronic votes in the control unit and the paper votes in the VVPAT, there would still be a 100% match, and the vote theft would not be detected.
In February 2019,Mr. Rahul C Mehta wrote on Facebook explaining the logic behind this EVM-VVPAT Black glass vote theft.
Subsequently, to explain EVM VVPAT black glass vote theft in a simple and precise manner, Mr. Rahul C.Mehta himself built an EVM/VVPAT demonstration machine. Since then, he and the organization he founded, the "EVM VVPAT Hatao Sena," have been conducting demonstrations across Bharat to show real EVM VVPAT vote theft (Black Glass Black Magic Demo). These EVM-VVPAT vote theft is not hacking technically, but pre-programming or inside tampering. The EVM-VVPAT's black glass & the attached Light sensor hides this vote theft.
According to the Election Commission manual, the cost of an EVM-VVPAT is ₹38,000. Before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, on 12th February 2024, the EVM VVPAT Hatao Sena (Right to Recall Party) / Mr. Rahul C. Mehta sent a letter to the Election Commission along with a demand draft of ₹40,000 requesting an EVM VVPAT. However, to date, the Election Commission has neither provided Mr. Rahul C. Mehta with an EVM-VVPAT machine nor responded to his letter. Mr. Rahul C. Mehta claims that just as he demonstrated vote theft using his EVM-VVPAT machine, if the Election Commission provides its official EVM-VVPAT machine, he can insert a program into it and demonstrate similar vote theft.
In 2010, Mr. Hariprasad Vemuru, who was an engineer in the Election Commission, obtained a real Election commission's non-VVPAT EVM from the Collector's office and, with the help of Mr. Rahul C. Mehta, demonstrated different methods of vote theft. A video of this is still available on YouTube today.
Even today, the same non-VVPAT EVM is being used for gram panchayats, municipal corporations, and zilla parishads elections. (here, after casting a vote, the voter cannot see their slip or symbol). In 2013, Supreme Court ordered that VVPAT must be mandatorily used with EVMs so that voters can verify their vote through a printed slip after voting. Even so, no EVM-opposing lawyer across Bharat has filed a petition to ensure that the Election Commission mandates VVPATs in municipal / local body elections, and no political party president has raised or acted on this issue. No party president, journalist, news channel (except Sahara), NGO, retired judges, Supreme Court lawyers, or anyone else has attempted to circulate this video or share it on their social media profiles.
Article 328 of the Indian Constitution empowers state governments to make laws with regards to conducting elections for municipal corporations, gram panchayats, zilla parishads, and even legislative assemblies in their respective states, in coordination with the State Election Commission. Despite this, no opposition party has ever enacted a law at the state level mandating that state elections be conducted through ballot papers instead of EVM-VVPATs with black glass and light sensors. (Google search to understand "How a main opposition party sidelined Art. 328 issue" - Nana Patole, Article 328, Congress, Maharashtra state.
The Election Commission of India states that a single EVM unit can handle a maximum of
384 candidates. Despite this, opposition parties have not fielded more than 384 candidates in any election or even threatened the ruling party to do so. In 2010, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi TRRS- once fielded more than 64 candidates, when the maximum limit was 64, which led to EVMs being discontinued at that time & elections by ballot paper.
Today, since the limit is 384 candidates, it is suggested that more than 384 candidates would need to be fielded. Whether this is practically possible is a separate question, but why opposition party leaders have not even attempted this. (We do not have enough money to field so many candidates.) If only as soon as a public announcement is made to field 384 candidates, the Election Commission would be forced to conduct elections using ballot paper, and EVM-VVPATS would have been automatically discontinued.
By just 5 minutes & 50 paisa, how can you Ban EVM-VVPATs across Bharat & bring back ballot paper, without depending on any party, leader, organization, lawyer, NGO, big rallies, police permission, etc.?
You only need to send a written open order letter via Postcard every month to the Election Commission, the Prime Minister, & the Chief Minister. Possibly, gather as many people as possible on one day at the same time (EVM-VVPAT Hatao Sena sends on 5th of every month at 5 PM), and post this open order / postcard on all your social media accounts Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. and keep it as your status so that more and more people become aware of the real technical reason behind EVM-VVPAT vote theft i.e. Black Glass & Light Sensor.
The most important words in this open order letter are "EVM-VVPAT Black Glass" & "EVM-VVPAT Light Sensor," because these are the REAL causes of vote theft in today's VVPAT-based EVMs.
If more and more citizens send such open order letters to the Election Commission, Prime Minister, and Chief Minister, that pressure will build, showing that citizens are becoming aware of the real reasons of how vote theft is possible in today's VVPAT EVMs. This pressure, will force them to bring ballot paper voting back in India.
To make this postcard more stronger and more pressure-building_to those in power, include demands such as the "Right to Recall Election Commissioner law" & the "Public Narco test law" along with "EVM-VVPAT Black Glass" & "Light Sensor." Those in power do not want widespread public awareness or demand for such real citizen-empowering laws, and because of this fear, they would be forced to bring ballot paper voting sooner in India.