EC's EVM challenge today: AAP to hold its own hackathon to prove tampering
Aam Admi Party has planned to organize its own EVM challenge today to show that EVMs can be tampered
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Some political parties also raised queries about incidents relating to VVPATs used on 31/3/17 during demonstration at Bhind & Dholpur, says CEC. Photo: ANI
The Election Commission organized the EVM challenge in New Delhi on Saturday where political parties tried to prove that the machines can be rigged.
However, only the Nationalist Congress Party and CPI(M) showed willingness to participate in the challenge.
The Commission has pulled out 14 Electronic Voting Machines for the challenge from its strong rooms in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand where assembly polls were held recently.
The challenge was organised after several major opposition parties had claimed that the faith of people in the machines has eroded.
After the UP assembly polls, BSP, Aam Aadmi Party, Congress and others had questioned the EVMs alleging that they were tampered with.
However, when the poll body invited all parties to participate in the challenge, the AAP and Congress raising some issue with the existing framework of challenge, decided not to take part.
The challenge will begin at 10 AM and end at 2 PM and the challengers will get four hours each to tamper with the EVM machines.