ELECTRONIC MACHINES, ELECTION FRAUDS
With the current presidential [re-]election fiasco in the USA and the stubborn, refusing-to-concede, President Donald Trump countering the so-called ‘President-Elect’ Joe Biden, the political focus worldwide has shifted again toward the propriety and reliability of using electronic machines in election processes – be those voting or counting machines. Even in India, we feel that, widespread rigging was conducted incognito through electronic voting machines in 2014 elections, but more so in the 2019 central and states’ elections, which had tilted the balance toward some established parties to a great extent; as such, since long, we have been calling for going back to the paper ballot. It is significant to note that in developed democracies in the West, paper ballot is cherished more and electronic voting is not used, or now shunned, in most of them, including France and Germany, mainly due to cybersecurity concerns. In the recent US presidential elections, not only electronic voting but even counting machines seem to have played havoc and were manipulated to alter a definite win for the incumbent president to the so-called ‘victory’ for a corrupt and inept ‘president-elect’. President Trump is inflexibly resisting this fraudulent outcome and litigating in several courts with lots of evidence regarding electoral frauds and we wish all success to his efforts. The Dominion Voting machines, of Venezuelan origin, notorious for their alleged rigging of elections in Venezuela, have been used in the Swing States by the Democrats’ controlled cities and lakhs of votes were manipulated. The other big problem was the mail-in-votes fraud; lakhs of falsely signed mail-in-votes dumps suddenly emerged to enable the losing Biden attain slender majorities by the next morning. Hence, even now, the said swing states’ legislatures can disregard this so-called ‘popular vote’ [including by the dead, non-resident, non-existing etc. mail-in voters] as a fraud on the people and send all electors for Trump by the time Electoral College finally meets on 14 December; that is neither unconstitutional nor illegal. Further, we may note that the unincorporated remote territory of Guam had, by public law 28-152, prohibited any sort of electronic voting ever since 2006 though it allowed counting machines. However, present developments show that even the counting machines are capable of flipping-the-votes, etc. frauds. So, unless the cybersecurity concerns are properly addressed in all or at least several major democracies in the world, electornic voting and counting should be strictly prohibited; and the mail-in-votes also must be limited to specific categories of people like government servants, armed forces, senior citizens of advanced age, seriously ailing handicapped persons etc. and that too with strict scrutiny standards as followed in our Indian postal ballot system. §§§
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