An EVM consists of two units, a control unit, and the balloting unit. the two units are joined by a five-meter cable .

1. E.V.M(ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE )

2. INTRODUCTION TO E.V.M
• It is a reliable machine for conducting
election.
• Has mainly 2 units: ballot and control
units, joined by a five-meter cable.
• Operates on a special battery.
• Tamper-proof.
• Information recorded is retained in
memory even when the battery is
removed.
• Electronic voting machines are mostly
used by the developed countries to
count the votes during the general
elections.

3. ELECTRONIC MACHINE (EVM)
• EVM were first used in 70- Parur
assembly constituency of Kerala in
the year 1982.
• EVM do not require electricity evm
run on an ordinary battery assembled
by Bharat electronics limited/
electronics corporation of India
limited.

4. ADVANTAGE OF E.V.M MACHINE
• MO demises the election process.
• User friendly- can be used even by
illiterates.
• Simple to operate and can be installed
in a short time.
• Preserves voting secrecy.
• No scope for invalid votes.
• facilitates quick and accurate counting-
possible to declare result
instantaneously.
• Re-usable by simply erasing votes
recorded in earlier poll.

5. DISADVANTAGES OF E.V.M MACHINE
• Requires to build up correct database of
civilians/user in advance
• It’s a costly affair & time taking process
• We have to use external chip to store
the votes
• Security issues and unequal internet
access
• We had provide continuous power
supply
• It is not proportional
• Minority’s choice, not the majority’s

6. PAPER BALLOT VS EVM
• Election in India by using electronic voting
machines (EVMs) started more than 30 years
after getting independence.
• Till then only paper ballots were used. Finding
that there were used.
• Finding that there were many malpractices like
vote rigging, forged voting, booth capturing, too
much time consumed in getting the paper
ballots packed and to avoid the wastage of tons
of paper during election process, election
commission of India thought of alternate and
better way of using voting rights by citizens.

7. VOTING SYSTEM COMPONENTS
• DRE(Direct Recording Electronic) voting machine:
device to record the voter’s choice.
• VVPAT(Voter-Verified Paper Audit trail): Paper
based record of the choice selected by the voter.
• EMS(Election Management System): system
responsible for the initialization of the components that
collect the votes and also for the final tallying of the
votes.
• OPTICAL SCANNER: an optical reader that counts
votes cast on paper ballots.
• DTD(data transport device): storage device to
transfer data between different components of the
system.

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