UN Campaign to Attract Young People in Politics
Almost half the world’s population is under 30. Yet, they make up only 2.6% of parliamentarians around the world. The average age of a world leader is currently 62. Of…
Court Dismisses GOP Lawsuit Against Remote Voting in Covid Pandemic
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to overturn the House’s adoption of proxy voting. The option of remote voting is proposed by Democrats to permit members…
Faulty EVMs: Voting Stopped in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has refuted media reports that claimed ‘large scale’ failure of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) in the ongoing…
Democracy 2.0: Aadhaar Data May be Used for Voting Frauds in India
It is possible to hack the Aadhaar databases, link the individual records with the EVMs, and change the vote count in favor of a particular candidate of a particular party.…
Voters Can’t, but Voting Machines Can Help Congress Win Gujarat Election
Instead of wandering in every street of Gujarat to meet voters, Rahul Gandhi must sit in a corner and think only about EVMs and how he can leverage these machines…
Voting Machines Even with VVPAT May Not be Safe in India
Although VVPAT is supposed to provide a mechanism to audit the votes polled in an election, it is still not a foolproof solution. By Rakesh Raman The controversy surrounding the…