Elections and eVoting

Recently the Election Commission of India gave a “Hackathon challenge” for political parties and countless ‘hackers’ to prove that EVMs or Electronic Voting Machines can be rigged. The world praises the concept of E-Voting. Let’s delve into the endless horizons of Elections and eVoting.

1This vote-buying practice crafted in Bosnia and Herzegovina includes a party activist handing out filled ballot papers to voters before the polling

stations and the voter return with an empty ballot. During the European Parliament election in June 2009, 200,000-350,000 votes were sold. What is the term called?

2Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed to buy 16,15,000 of these units in the General Elections 2019. When the voter presses the button against the name of the candidate of her or his choice on the EVM unit, this will generate a paper slip, also called ‘ballot slip’. What are we talking about?

3‘i-Voting’, is a system that allows voters to cast their ballots from any internetconnected computer, anywhere in the world. In 2005, this country

became the first country in the world to hold nation-wide elections through this and in 2007 it used it in parliamentary elections. Identify the country.

4This verb means drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party. In 1812 Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry redrew district boundaries which looked like an amphibian, so they combined his name with the name of the amphibian to create this term. What is it?

5In 1991, Julien Anno filed a patent application for a modern electronic ballot marker. The Jites and Digivote systems of electronic

voting used in this country are similar to that, although they use magnetic stripe cards instead of bar codes. Identify the country.