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Contents

Preface

1 Use of Electronic Voting Machines in Indian Elections

    — Dr. Roxna Swamy

2 EVMs are Not Tamper-Proof: Falsity of the Election
    Commissioner's Claim

    — Dr Subramanian Swamy

Annexure 2.1: Dr. Subramanian Swamy's Statement Regar-
ding Falsity of the Chief Election Commissioner’s Claim

3 EVM Hacking — EC Accountable Under Cyberlaws

    — Dr. S. Kalyanaraman

Annexure 3.1: Excerpts from Central Election Commission
Website on the Nature of EVMs

Annexure 3.2: Excerpts from Information Technology
Act, 2000

Annexure 3.3: EVM is Like a Super Calculator, Says Chawla

Annexure 3.4: A Remote Wireless Manipulation of EVM

4 EVMs Can Be Rigged

    — Sam Rajappa

5 German Supreme Court Declares EVMs Unconstitutional

    — Dr. Till Jaeger

Annexure 5.1: German Supreme Court Judgement Holding
EVMs Unconstitutional

6 The Case for Banning EVMs

Dr. Anupam Saraph

Annexure 6.1: Lacunae in Electronic Voting Process

Annexure 6.2: Artefacts and Data that Point to Failures in Ensuring Transparency, Verifiability and Fidelity of the
Process in the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections

Annexure 6.3: Inability to Distinguish Human Votes
from Machine Votes

Annexure 6.4: Ability to Create Machine Votes in a
Multitude of Ways

Annexure 6.5: Grounds for Rejection of EVMs in
Other Countries

Annexure 6.6: Failure of the Election Commission of
India to Address the Concerns Raised about EVMs

7 Electronic Voting — Danger and Opportunity

    — Dr. J. Alex Halderman

8 Are India’s EVMs Reliable and Meet the Legal
    Requirements?

    — Ajay Jagga

9 Electronic and Internet Voting: International
    Experience and What India May Do

    — Dr. T. H. Chowdary

10 Failure of ECIL and BEL to Obtain International
    Patent for Indian EVMs

11 Resolution of International Conference on
    Electronic Voting Machines

12 Independent Experts Raise Serious Questions

(i) Letter of Professor David Dill to Navin Chawla,
Chief Election Commissioner

(ii) Letter of US Professors and IT Experts to
Chief Election Commissioner of India

(iii) Letter of Omesh Saigal to Prime Minister

Annexure 12.1: Flow Chart

Appendix 1: Untamperability of EVMs — A Reality Check

    — N. Ramesh

Appendix 2: Public Nature of Election Process