Question

Give me 10 points of disadvantages of ballot paper

Answer 1

Answer:

There is no scope for automation in paper ballot system. Electronic voting machines are preferred because it reduces the manual work and with one press of the button, the votes are recorded.

2. Post-election, it takes a huge amount of time to count the votes before declaring the results. In electronic voting machines, the counting is be done within few minutes.

3. The people who are physically challenged find it difficult to cast their votes through the paper ballot and even if they cast their votes using paper ballot they require someone to cast their vote on behalf. In such cases, their privacy while casting vote is breached. However, with EVMs in place they can just touch the screen in order to cast their votes via touchscreen EVM.

4. Paper is a substance that is inflammable thus under certain circumstances, the paper in which the votes were recorded in ballot might get damaged then becomes impossible to retrieve the records of the votes.

5. Paper ballots cannot be manipulated but using paper as a raw material in such voting system it becomes harmful for the environment. On the other hand, using electronic voting machines are much more economical.

6. In few places where the governance is corrupt, they can easily insert several bogus paper votes in the ballot and then it becomes impossible to track the honest votes.

7. Few electronic voting machines give paper trial for the votes recorded. However, on the paper ballot, there are no such confirmations. There is no automation in place which can tell that how many votes were recorded per minute.

8. Casting votes using paper ballot is a time-consuming task whereas voting via EVM is done in few seconds.

9. The cost of expenditure on the paper ballot is way higher than on EVM. Using EVMs are quite economical for the election commission.

10. With the paper ballot, the greatest challenge is that one could never use historic reference in case of the paper ballot whereas in EVMs one can store the records for years.

Answer 2

Explanation:

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