EVM

EVM can be an abbreviation for:

Electronic voting

Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting using electronic means to record or count votes. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may encompass a range of Internet services, from a touchscreen kiosk at a polling station to voting online, and from a local-only solution to a networked system.

Electronic voting technology can include punched cards, optical scan voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (including self-contained direct-recording electronic voting systems, or DRE). It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks, or the Internet.

In general, two main types of e-Voting can be identified:

Many insecurities have been found in commercial voting machines, such as using a default administration password. Cases have also been reported of machines making unpredictable, inconsistent errors. Key issues with electronic voting are therefore the openness of a system to public examination from outside experts, the creation of an authenticatable paper record of votes cast and a chain of custody for records.

Election commission

An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of election procedures. The exact name used varies from country to country, including such terms as "electoral commission", "central election commission", "electoral branch" or "electoral court". Election commissions can be independent, mixed, judicial or governmental. They may also be responsible for electoral boundary delimitation. In federations there may be a separate body for each subnational government.

Electoral models

In the independent model the election commission is independent of the executive and manages its own budget. Countries with an independent election commission include Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United Kingdom. In some of these countries the independence of the election commission is constitutionally guaranteed e.g. section 190 of the Constitution of South Africa.

In the branch model the election commission is often called an electoral branch, and is usually a constitutionally-recognized separate branch of government, with its members appointed by either the executive or the legislative branch. Countries with an electoral branch include Bolivia, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Saurabh Bhardwaj

Saurabh Bhardwaj is an Indian politician from the Aam Admi Party, currently representing Greater Kailash constituency in the Delhi State Legislature. He was cabinet minister in the government of Delhi heading Food & supply,Transport, Environment, Election & GAD ministries. and now he is MLA again elected in elections held in 2015 from GK

Early life and education

Bhardwaj born in New Delhi. He is an engineer in (Computer Science) graduate of Bhartividyapeeth's college of engineering affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Prior to joining AAP he was working with Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd in Gurgaon.Bharadwaj started his career as Software Engineer in Infosys, Hyderabad.

Political career

Bhardwaj won the seat, defeating the Ajay Kumar Malhotra of the Bharatiya Janata Party by 13092 votes in 2013 Delhi state election.

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Voting machine

Voting machines are the total combination of mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic equipment (including software, firmware, and documentation required to program control, and support equipment), that is used to define ballots; to cast and count votes; to report or display election results; and to maintain and produce any audit trail information. The first voting machines were mechanical but it is increasingly more common to use electronic voting machines.

A voting system includes the practices and associated documentation used to identify system components and versions of such components; to test the system during its development and maintenance; to maintain records of system errors or defects; to determine specific changes made after initial certification; and to make available any materials to the voter (such as notices, instructions, forms, or paper ballots).

Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by the mechanism the system uses to cast votes and further categorized by the location where the system tabulates the votes.