Ban The EVM

As we saw in the previous section, the purpose of voting is minimizing injustice to individuals in a group decision, it is most important that the people who are at receiving end of 'injustice', the people whose choices differed from the final voted choice of the group, have full confidence in the integrity of voting. As someone famously said, "Purpose of voting is to satisfy the loser that they lost" (I couldn't trace who originally said it.)
Many good principles have been agreed upon internationally to ensure integrity as well as trust in integrity of elections in democracies. India and its Election Commission have also accepted many of these, through original Constituent Assembly discussions, multiple court judgements as well as international participation and agreements. They have agreed that elections should be:

• Free and Fair
• Accountable
• Transparent

There are other principles as well, but we will stick to these main ones, because of two reasons

• Other principles are in a way covered by these main broad ones unless we want to be very particularly pedantic
• More important reason for sticking to these four is that they have been accepted by Election Commission of India on record, many times. So in our campaign to ban EVM, we can directly use these principles as strong reasons, without having to convince ECI that these priciples matter.
• Haha wait there is a third reason as well. The more principles I list here, the more I would have to read about them, elaborate and explain what these principles mean and how EVMs destroy them. Then readers will have to read more and grasp. So we let it be for now, and will edit later if it seems really necessary to add more internationally acknowledged principles to make our case to ban EVM.