EVMs in 2023
THE approach adopted by analysts and others for making a case against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) is like someone saying in the early part of the last…
EVM law: what next?
FINALLY, the law has been passed by parliament. The government hopes that things will now move swiftly and that the law will ensure that the next general election scheduled in…
The EVM heist
0Not a single electronic voting machine (EVM) was used in the general election in Germany this week. Germany is not alone. Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, and Finland have all banned EVMs.…
EVMs: the missing details
Election reforms have never been as contentious as they have become today. The debate over the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the next general election has not only…
The case of EVMs
Electronic voting machines (EVMs) seem to have gained greater currency, and popularity as well, in our electoral discourse over the past few years. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) may…
Were there EVMs in the 1930s?
How can the opposition wrest power from Prime Minister Modi in 2019? If everybody is united and their votes are not split, the 41 per cent the prime minister’s party…
Are Gandhis equipped for the fight?
PRIYANKA Gandhi is the brand new Congress MP being watched with interest and hope. She won the by-election from Wayanad in Kerala with a massive majority and she has to hit the ground…
Modi machinations
THERE is an unusual stakeholder in the ongoing Indian elections — the electronic voting machine. The last batch of Indian voters will press buttons of their choice on this machine this…
Is there now a winning team?
FOR India’s opposition, the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. It’s now known that a key witness against Kejriwal donated a tidy…
Selected or elected PMs?
Despite being a constitutional democracy since August 14, 1973, mass confusion prevails in the mechanism of transition of power in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Selected PMs have badly failed…
