Benefits of EVM in the Elections as compared to the Ballot box:
1. After the introduction of EVM in an election the use of paper in a huge
amount is depressed. According to the survey, about 10,000 tons of ballots
were saved in a national election in India due to the use of EVM. It saves more
than 20 lac trees. This is totally environmentally friendly.
2. Surveys given on the election commission of India website show that EVM is
more beneficial on the basis of cost printing of ballot paper storage,
transportation and cost used on the manpower or to carry ballot papers is
very high from EVM.
3. As we know the weight of EVM machines is very less we can carry and move
easily from one place to another as compared with the ballot boxes, that is
why people living in the hilly and other inaccessible can cast their vote in the
elections.
4. If we compare the time of ballot box and EVM for calculation of total votes
and declaration of result, EVM machines are best for counting of votes it takes
a shorter time, for an example Lok Sabha election that was held on 2019 more
than 800 million citizens voted their favorite candidates with the help of EVM
Machine, votes will take on faster mode and calculate results too fast by
comparing ballot boxes.
5. EVM reduces the forgery votes, according to the rules of the election
commission, one person cast one vote at a time and EVM saves the votes in its
memory, and software was directly governed by polling booth officers. When
votes are finally closed, there is no possibility of a fake vote. This is the best
thing available in the EVM machine.
6. The EVMs are run by batteries, so these machines can be used in those areas
where there is no electricity.
7. Hence, EVM machines are smaller in size and cheaper in rates, the durability of
EVM machines is more than 10 years. While comparing the cost of the election
of the ballot box and EVM machines the EVM reduces the cost of the election
too.
Paper ballots were exclusively used during elections till the 1990s.[1] The printed paper
ballots were expensive and required substantial resources for transporting, safely storing
them and physically counting individual ballots.[2] Paper ballots were prone to fraudulent
voting and booth capturing, where party loyalists captured booths and stuffed them with pre-
filled fake ballots.[3] Since the late 1950s, there were multiple documented cases of such
activities being reported.[4] The problem grew between the 1950s and 1980s and became a
serious and large scale problem in certain states and regions often accompanied with
violence.[5] In the late 1970s, Election Commission of India sought a solution for the issues
which resulted in the development of Electronic voting machines (EVM).[3][6]
