‘Try and hack our EVMs’: Election Commission to throw challenge in May first week
Thursday, April 13, 2017 IST
The Election Commission on Wednesday threw an “open challenge” to people to hack its EVMs, a move that comes when opposition parties urged it to revert to the paper ballot system as they raised doubts over dependability of the machines.
“From the primary week of might, experts, scientists, technocrats will return for per week or ten days and check out to hack the machines,” a politician supply aforesaid.
They aforesaid the challenge are open for per week or ten days and can have numerous levels.
The Commission had proclaimed the same challenge in 2009 and it claimed nobody might hack its electronic option machines (EVMs).
Several political parties have raised doubts over the responsibleness of the EVMs when the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) unexpectedly huge ending in state elections last month.
Following the Aam Aadmi Party’s underwhelming performance within the geographical area assembly polls, Old Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had alleged that the EVMs may be manipulated.
The commission rejected the allegations created by Kejriwal as “completely baseless” and aforesaid that they were created while not corroborative the facts.
The issue of faulty EVMs was raised once more when reports that a VVPAT machine used throughout an effort in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind solely distributed slips with the ruling BJP’s poll image.
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