Diebold makes the EVMs that will be using in some areas in the US presidential election and they have been criticised for having major problems with their systems. Since the Indian elections used EVMs too (these were made by BEL), it is very interesting to see the Indian EVMs compared with Diebold.

The design of the Indian EVMs is much more simple and elegant but that didn't stop booth capturing (or booth management as it is now called) and 'vote stuffing' in Bihar. However, the effect of such booth management is much less than it was before since each machine can accept a maximum of 1500 votes.

The Indian elections have shown the properly designed and managed EVMs can work as expected.