New Delhi: In the wake of questions over and over raised by opposition parties on the dependability of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Election Commission will on Friday meet political of 55 political parties to advance its remain on the matter.
The EC will gather the meeting of seven national and 48 state parties to examine the reliability of EVMs after pioneers of 13 parties met Election Commission authorities in April to pass on their "total loss of confidence" in the EVMs and to request utilization of VVPATvoter-verified paper audit trail) and paper ballots in future polls.
Amid the tremendously anticipated meeting, the Commission is likewise liable to brief the parties about its arranged EVM hacking challenge. The date of the proposed test would be chosen after the all-party meeting.
A few parties have requested they be enabled access to the machines utilized as a part of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly surveys.
Excluding applicants named in a charge sheet for paying off voters, making appointive join a non-bailable offense and facilitating of tenets to request numbering of votes through paper trail are a portion of alternate issues Election Commission will talk about with political parties today.
Days before the proposed meet, the Aam Admi Party had arranged a show on hacking a 'voting machine' in the Delhi Assembly. The gathering had utilized an EMV model to make the exhibit.
The EC had destroyed AAP's claim, saying the 'machine is a clone and not the ECI-EVM'.
On Thursday, the Aam Aadmi Party tossed a new test before the survey board and said that given a shot it could demonstrate how voting machines utilized as a part of the Assembly surveys were pre-customized to support a specific gathering.
AAP administrator Saurabh Bharadwaj asked the Election Commission to frame a board of delegates of all political parties and specialists from the survey board to look at EVMs.