EVM hacking challenge begins, 2 parties to have a go

June 03, 2017 10:13

Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party and the Left will try to prove that electronic voting machines can be rigged at the Election Commission's hackathon, which is now underway.

The Election Commission has announced that a total of 14 EVMs will be made available to representatives of Sharad Pawar's party and the Left, who hope to prove that the Election Commission is wrong and that the equipment used by it can be gamed, as alleged by a series of political parties.

Hackers will get four hours - from 10 am to 2 pm - and access to four machines each. The other EVMs will be kept as back up.

Earlier on Friday evening, the Uttarakhand high court rejected a plea which called for a stay on the EVM challenge claiming the Election Commission does not have the authority to conduct the event. The high court also barred political parties and others from criticising the use of EVMs in the five state assembly elections "till pending election petitions are decided", a decision that has cast a shadow on the Aam Aadmi Party's planned parallel hackathon.

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