From: Anupam Saraph <anupamsaraph@gmail.com>

Subject: URGENT ALERT: Ensure democracy is retained in India

Date: 15 May 2014 3:02:35 pm IST 

To: "Mr. Mukherjee Pranab K"<presidentofindia@rb.nic.in>

Cc: Nalapat Madhav <mdnalapat@gmail.com>,secy.president@rb.nic.in, mathew.thomas@rb.nic.in,ps1president@rb.nic.in, osdtopresident@rb.nic.in,pstopresident@rb.nic.in

Your Excellency,

If the information that senior Ministers from the UPA expect to retain their portfolios and the UPA to be back in power is correct, it smells of a repeat of the 2009 scenario, where elections were hijacked even as the exit Polls had projected a UPA defeat. 

While most of us would sincerely hope that this is neither correct nor will it happen, it is important to do all possible within the next 12 hours to protect the country from such a disaster, yet again. We write with the hope that you will do everything to avert the complete failure of democracy in India.  

In 2009 we had discovered “votes polled” data on the Election Commission of India website 10 days before the election got over. You may recall that a large number of candidates experienced surprise and shock at not only unexpected results but at the votes counted at individual EVMs. This could only be explained if the "votes polled" data discovered by us, or similar data on a central computer, was transmitted to different constituencies to replace the votes actually polled in the constituencies. The distribution of such centrally decided votes would not be distributed across the 1500 odd EVMs in each constituency without mistakes, therefore causing the surprises.  Unfortunately the Election Commission of India neither replied nor clarified publicly on the issue.

We note that this year there is a PIL that has asked for only constituency data to be declared. This will mean that discrepancies across EVMs arising out of similar replacement of actual votes polled by "votes polled" data from a central computer will not be spotted. In the interest of transparency this would be wrong. We urge you to ask the Election Commission to ensure that counting is done from individual EVMs and that no EVM is connected to any computer before or during the counting process. 

The absence of candidate data on the Election Commission of India's website in 2014 elections, unlike in 2009, has already cast a shadow on the transparency of the elections and suggests that accidental exposure of the public to what we spotted in 2009 should not happen. We pray this is not true.   

Here is what needs to happen before counting to confirm/prevent or gather evidence of the any foul play of the elections in 2014 if it happens:

# The ECI computers need to be audited by cybersecurity experts within the next 24 hours, A copy of the servers and their logs be sealed and kept for independent analysis monitored by the Supreme Court/CAG

# The server connecting with computers in various constituencies is replaced with a clean machine

# The logs of the servers and network transmission of the central computers as well as machines in each counting centre are taken to custody and audited

# Observers of all parties, NGO’s, media and the CAG to be invited to the central control room at the ECI throughout the counting 

We request you to do all within your power to call the Election Commission to do the necessary.We know all of these are difficult, but not impossible. When the democracy of the country is at stake, this cannot be a large effort to undertake and comply. 

Despite this if the worst nightmare of any democracy were to still happen, we are confident you will do everything to uphold and bring back democracy in India.

Satyameva Jayate!

Prof. Anupam Saraph   Prof. Madhav Nalapat

India's EVMs are Vulnerable to Fraud

Uploaded on Apr 27, 2010

Contrary to claims by Indian election authorities, the paperless electronic voting systems used in India suffer from significant vulnerabilities. Even brief access to the machines could allow criminals to alter election results.

In this video, we demonstrate two kinds of attacks against a real Indian EVM. One attack involves replacing a small part of the machine with a look-alike component that can be silently instructed to steal a percentage of the votes in favor of a chosen candidate. These instructions can be sent wirelessly from a mobile phone. Another attack uses a pocket-sized device to change the votes stored in the EVM between the election and the public counting session, which in India can be weeks later.

These attacks are neither complicated nor difficult to perform, but they would be hard to detect or defend against. The best way to prevent them is to count votes using paper ballots that voters can see.

Dr. Subramanian Swamy originally shared this

 

Watch this short video of 6 minutes on EVM Fraud, and how western centralized powers were able to control India from outside via Italian-British stooges in the form of Congress and Leftists Parties in India.
That is why, I have been fighting this EVM snake from last 5 years, because EVM makes sure the continuation of Foreign rule over India despite huge