Dear list, if anyone of you had more than 1 EVMS in your constituency, kindly tell whether braille signs in the 2nd EVM were matching the sighted serial numbers? As it is noticed here in Mysore and Mandya where more than one EVMS were used, the Braille numbers in the 2nd machine was once again started from one instead of from 17. In other words, The braille numbers in the 2nd machines are not in par with the sighted numbers. When my friends raised this issue with the R.O.s and A.R.O.s, they simply try to tought them basic mathematics like 16 plus 16 and so on. Dear list, I strongly feel that, it is clear violation of the principle of "informed Voating" as the improper information is causing misled voating. Lets consider the sighted voters scenario: A sighted voter can ensure to whom he/she is voating through multiple ways as the EVMs contain sighted serial numbers, symbles and by the candidate's photos as well. But for a visually impaired voter, probably, the only way of knowing to whom he/she is voating is through braille signs. If the braille serial numbers are not matching the actual serial numbers of the candidates, how it can be called an accessible and informed voating? One of the official said and it is also observed that, there is a Braille lable for the aditional machine. If the Numbers of EVMs can be put in Braille, why cant the ECI go farward and put the candidates serial number in aditional EVMs in accordance with standard serial numbers?
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