Saurabh Bharadwaj, the Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Greater Kailash, on Tuesday claimed in the Delhi Assembly that EVMs can be tampered with using a certain secret code which any voter in the know can insert in the machine. Bhardwaj said that each party has a code and when that code is keyed into the machine all votes registered on the machine will go to the party the machine has been rigged for.

Bharadwaj, who was a software engineer before he joined politics, claimed the EVM machines can be tampered with easily, and demonstrated on a mock machine.

Giving a step-by-step demonstration of the how the tampering is allegedly done, he said there are different codes to make anyone on the panel win, based on their position in the panel. After the BJP swept the polls in UP, opposition parties -- the BSP, Congress, AAP, SP and CPM -- claimed that the machines were tampered with.

Bhardwaj demonstrated that the vote tally is absolutely different from actual votes cast. He resets the machine with the code and demonstrates that the same EVM, which passed the mock test, could be manipulated during polls.

He said he spent 10 years working in this field and challenged any scientist to explain it to him.


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