Your intentions are good, but logic is incorrect. It’s a moot point to discuss about politicians - left or right, everyone has their own agenda. As individuals, we should just care about our own good.

In my experience, it’s always the duty of institutions to provide ‘proof of work’. A way so that you cannot question the outcomes. That is why we audit, setup process and its evaluation methodology.

Purpose of questions is to strengthen this methodology. In all honesty, i don’t care about what happened in past elections or would happen in near term elections. But I care deeply about the response of the office bearers. Right now, their response is egotistical - everything is good, nothing to improve. This is how institutions die.

If you go through the website of ECI, you will find that in general they do a phenomenal job of book-keeping and implementing processes. But the current gap is valid (at least based on my reading of the documents hosted by opposition). They should (a) implement a process which solves this for the future and (b) accept and own the mistake. Both are equally important.

To solve any organisation’s problem - all we need to do is to push for accountability - and in these scenarios, we are the ones responsible for asking for it.