EC invites parties & techies to manipulate, hack EVMs

EC invites parties & techies to manipulate, hack EVMs

Political parties doubting the credibility of electronic voting machines will have an opportunity next month to prove their point.

The Election Commission has decided to throw up an open challenge for political parties, scientists and technologists to walk into its headquarters in Nirvachan Sadan in New Delhi in the first week of May and prove that EVMs could be tampered with.

The poll panel took this decision to clear doubts over the credibility of EVMs. This comes on a day leaders of the Congress and 12 Opposition parties called on President Pranab Mukherjee and drew his attention to the allegations about tampering of EVMs by the BJP in the just-concluded Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.