EC rules out unconventional EVM hacking claims made by some unknown at a London event

January 22, 2019:

A US-based man today made sensational but unsubstantiated claims regarding Electronic Voting Machines (EVMS) that are used in Indian elections.

He claimed to have been involved in designing the EVMs are used in India and also that the 2014 Lok Sabha elections were rigged.

The man addressed a press conference in London where he claimed that many political parties in India were aware about how EVMs could be hacked. The man didn't offer much in the way of evidence or proof to back his claims.

Less than three months before the parliamentary elections, the Europe chapter of the Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA) is set to demonstrate how electronic voting machines (EVMs) can be hacked.

The demonstration will be held in London Monday, and the IJA has roped in a US-based cyber expert, who they say is also a designer of EVMs in India.

The IJA invite reads,"His contention is these machines are not only hack-able, but have routinely been hacked in recent Indian national and state elections so as to rig elections."

The Election Commission of India (ECI) is not aware of the live demonstration in London.

Ashok Lavasa, election commissioner said,“We are not aware of any such demonstration, and we have always maintained that the EVMs used by the ECI in India are not tamperable.”

India has to elect its next government by mid-May, when the term of the current BJP-led NDA Government ends.

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