Electronic Voting Machines

In 2008, the once reclusive Land of the Thunder Dragon further opened its doors and joined the world’s democracies. Here’s the crucial role India played in it.

The theory asks for all elections to take place on the same day every five years. Reformers and reports backing this theory suggest that by doing so, we would be able to save costs, resources and time.

These Mark-3 EVMs are manufactured by government-owned companies—Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).

The ‘M3’ or third generation machines that are currently under production, are equipped with the tamperproof mechanism of halting all operations upon being fiddled with.