Delhi’s close partner Russia is seeking to learn from India’s experience in conducting smooth polls through EVMs — this, at a time when the Opposition in India has raised the possibility of EVM tampering in the recently-concluded Assembly polls in five states. Moscow, it has been learnt, is keen to learn from India’s EVM technology experience ahead of the March 2018 presidential polls when Vladimir Putin will seek re-election.
Russia will also assist India in developing state-of-the-art tabulation system for counting of votes, according to persons familiar with the development. This system will also help Indian officials to obtain faster region-wise and group-wise polling patterns.
Nikolai Levichev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian election commission, in fact, visited Uttarakhand during the Assembly polls to get a first-hand experience of voting through EVMs. He later held wide-ranging consultations in Delhi with senior officials across ministries for cooperation regarding sharing best practices and learning from the EVM technology, informed one of the persons quoted above.
Full Article: Russia wants India’s EVM technology for its 2018 presidential election – The Economic Times.