Former CEC OP Rawat says EVMs can't be manipulated

May 22, 2019 18:57

Former CEC OP Rawat responding to the allegations of EVMs being hacked, said, "There is no means to hack EVMs. They are totally tamper proof."

He added that the EVMs are stand-alone machines which go in factory mode if one tries to hack them.

On Thursday, the three-member Election Commission rejected the demand from 22 political parties to make last-minute changes to the way votes will be counted on Thursday.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora had taken up the opposition demand to change the protocol for counting at his meeting with election commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra. Leaders of 22 political parties had yesterday approached the commission to demand that paper slips from the VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail) module are matched before the counting begins so that in cases of discrepancy, all votes in that particular assembly segment can be cross-checked with the paper slips.

At present, the counting will involve the matching of paper slips in five polling booths picked at random for each assembly segment towards the end of counting.

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