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Vice President Election: According to the Election Commission (EC) website, EVM was first conceived in the civic elections in 1977.
Vice President Election: Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), which has been successfully used in five Lok Sabha and more than 130 assembly elections so far, cannot be used in the elections of President, Vice President, Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Councils. The reason for this is that EVM is designed for direct elections, where the most voting candidate is the winner. At the same time, the election of the President and the Vice President is held by single transferable votes under the proportional representation system. In this, each voter marks the candidates in the order of preference, not only one. Use of ballot paper is necessary for this complex system, as EVM does not have the facility to enter preference order. For this technical reason, the use of EVM is limited to direct elections only.
Vice President’s election on 9 September
It is known that on September 9, there is an election of Vice President. For the candidates, these priorities are to be mentioned by the voter in the place of priority in front of the names of the candidates in the place given in column 2 of the ballot. NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan and Opposition candidate P Sudarshan Reddy are in the fray for the Vice Presidential election to be held on 9 September. It is known that this post is going on vacant due to Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden resignation from the post of Vice President on July 21. Like the Rajya Sabha elections, voting and counting in the election of the post of Vice President takes place on the same day. Election officials said that EVM has not been designed to register this system of voting. The election officer said that under the proportional representation system, the machine will have to count votes on preference basis, which is not possible in the current EVM.
EVM was first used in 1982
According to the Election Commission (EC) website, EVM was first conceived in the civic elections in 1977. Electronics Corporation of India Limited (Ecil)) Hyderabad was tasked to design and develop it. A prototype was developed in 1979, which was displayed by the Representatives of political parties on 6 August 1980 by the Election Commission. Another public sector undertaking for the construction of EVM, Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore to ECIL (Ecil)) Was co-died The machines were first used in the Kerala assembly elections in May 1982. However, the Supreme Court canceled that election due to the absence of a specific law determining its use. After this, in 1989, Parliament amended the Representation of the Representation of the Representatives Act, 1951 to provide the use of EVM in the elections. The consensus on the introduction of EVM could only be formed in 1998. After this, it was used in the assembly elections of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan. Since then, the Election Commission has used EVM in each state election.
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