An electronic experts group Saturday challenged the poll panel’s claim that the electronic voting machines (EVM) are tamper proof, and said the voting devices can be tampered with in many ways.
“EVMs have many loopholes. We are challenging those who claim that EVMs are infallible. There are many security leakages in these machines which can give us a manipulated result,” said Hari K. Prasad, a Hyderabad based electronics expert and head of Net India Pvt Ltd.
The claim by the electronic expert group comes a day after the Election Commission Saturday maintained that the EVMs were “fully tamper-proof” and invited political parties and others who had raised doubts about the credibility of the machines to come for a demonstration to set their misgivings at rest “once and for all”.
About 1.3 million EVMs were used during the April-May Lok Sabha polls. Of these, 400,000 were new.
“Leave apart the old EVMs, the upgraded machines are not fully tamper proof,” Prasad told a gathering.
The group is making another demonstration to nail the poll panel’s claims next week before a technical experts team.
Prasad said mechanisms like printing a confirmation paper slip after voting, like in credit cards, would make the process more credible.- We have been asking for this for quite some time.
Meanwhile Jayalalitha defended her decision to boycott polls by citing Hari's demonstration and A
See how shallow your argument is."An expert..." Prasad's idea is rubbish because the most important thing in an election is gaurding the secrecy of voter.It is an easy wat to sell and buy vote.People like Azhagiri will easily exploit it.Atleast now they use milk to get promise anf if slip comes nothing is needed.
ReplyDeleteMy dear friend, the most important thing in an election is genuineness and not even secrecy. In the recent past, it is this secrecy which was exploited to the hilt.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is this mentality which provides the chawals for the fix.