EVM challenge to begin on June 3: Hack it if you can, says EC to parties

EC's guidelines for hacking EVMs have not sat well with the AAP

The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday offered its electronic voting machines (EVMs) to be hacked under a "Framework of Challenge" from June 3.

The move comes after some political parties, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Trinamool Congress, have alleged that EVMs can be tampered with and that such tampering took place during the recently concluded state Assembly polls and Delhi civic body polls.  

Foreign experts have been barred from participating in the challenge.

For its part, the commission insists that the machines cannot be tampered with in its custody. It held a demonstration