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22. As far as the submissions of Ld. Counsel for defendants regarding faulty mechanism to compulsorily cast votes on the first page in order to enable casting votes for the subsequent posts is concerned, I am in disagreement with the said submissions. Any software works as per its algorithm. If the IRIA itself created such a mechanism and allowed it to work for about 8 years, it cannot find fault with such system in such a manner and at such a critical juncture of the election process. Besides, from the demonstration shown in the court, it cannot be said that the voting mechanism demanded compulsorily casting a vote on the first page and not providing any option for skipping the same. Ordinarily, electronic process are akin to their physical equivalents, in fact, better than that. Further, as far as non matching of the logs viz a viz number of votes is concerned, in my considered opinion, it per se does not in any way raises any doubt about the credibility of the software. It is quite possible that the developer while writing the source code might not have logged every vote and any discrepancy in the log may or may not result in the malfunctioning of a software. Nevertheless, it is open to the defendants to challenge the election process but only after the declaration of the results and it is not open to the defendants to scuttle the election process at the final stage.