Wednesday, May 13, 2009

B(H)OT

BOT: Software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone - Wikipedia

BHOT / VOTE: An improvised version of collecting ballots, originally used in ancient Greece, to find who is the superior.


Its the season of "Vote" in India. India is quite alive with it now. Today it came to my city to prove its democracy. In my scheduled center the security was amazing, with guns which i have seen in movies. I don't remember seeing any violence ever in my surroundings, but we must follow protocols. These heavily armed, well built men standing outside were probably given the order to settle any occasional outbursts. As far as I understand, in vote festival party people are clever enough to attack these centers in proper cities. The only threat is in casting false votes. No one will come there to rob a bank! And if that is happening inside then what is the use of keeping these armed men standing? Because even if they realize something like that is happening inside, but peacefully, they don't have the right to intervene.


West Bengal has not seen any change in its central power for quit some time and the red color very well signifies the central power nowadays. The irony lies in the fact that, regardless of which button you press in the EVM, a red light will glow. Someone once told me that on the contrary to the belief that the EVMs have reduced false votes, it may have increased it. Now you only need to tamper with the circuit and all the votes will be registered under one section. How about fighting that with SLR or Ak47 or whatever guns? The short form of the voter ID card is EPIC (Electronic Picture Identity Card). If you don't have one or if you have lost it and want to have one, you will soon realize why it is called EPIC. During the proces of casting your vote, after identifying themselves, people prefer to give thumb prints insted of signing. How about comparing it as an mockery to our countries literacy rate?


Insted of those heavy securities, there could have been balloon stands or fast food stands. Because all the candidates are very matured and decent people in there own animated saying. False votes will always be there. If there was no or less security then may be the voting would have been peaceful. When someone would come and see that his vote is already cast, he may say "Oh, someone should have informed me earlier, then i would have not come all the way under the sun!" and go home. He would not have done the protocol shouting s and created chaos, as there would not have been much security to give him the false belief that he was living in democracy.