Letter to BS: EC should strengthen authenticity of EVMs with VVPAT machines

The editorial, “Retrograde demands’’ (August 29) is timely. A host of political parties in their meeting with the Election Commission (EC) have lobbied to go back to paper ballots instead of electronic voting machines (EVMs). The argument bandied against EVMs was they occasionally malfunctioned. So what? The EVMs are after all machines and can malfunction. In all the elections, we have seen adequate provisions being made to replace faulty machines.

The EVMs have over the years proved to be tamper proof. Some time ago, when their authenticity was being questioned, the EC had thrown a challenge to the political parties to