Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar mentioned on Tuesday that EVMs are completely “secure and sturdy”.
New Delhi:
Dismissing allegations of ‘various EVM battery ranges’, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar mentioned Digital Voting Machines are completely “secure and sturdy,” and have batteries like a calculator, not like a cell which will probably be charged on a regular basis.
CEC Kumar defined that EVMs had three-layered safety together with the batteries and in every degree signatures of political get together representatives had been taken to make sure transparency.
“Folks additionally ask, if pagers might be hacked then why cannot EVMs be hacked? Pagers are related however EVMs usually are not,” he mentioned throughout a press convention whereas asserting the ballot dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand meeting elections on Tuesday.
Notably, Israel had hacked pagers of terrorist outfit Hezbollah.
He defined that the batteries put in EVMs are single-use batteries, and the signatures of every political get together’s consultant are additionally taken on them.
“It is a single use battery… like a calculator, not like a cell which will probably be charged on a regular basis. One battery can be utilized for round 5 years,” the CEC mentioned.
“When a machine is commissioned, the battery is placed on that day, that is executed 5 or 6 days earlier than voting. .. even on the battery there are signatures of get together representatives. We additionally have no idea after we made this rule, however now it’s helpful to us,” he mentioned.
CEC Kumar additionally defined that EVMs had three-layered safety and signatures of political get together representatives had been taken to make sure transparency.
“When the EVMs are sealed, they are going to be double locked, there will probably be a three-layer safety, the place CAPF should be there, and observers will probably be there too. On the day of polling the entire course of will probably be repeated and additionally it is videographed,” he added.
“This kind of system, with public disclosure, participation, please inform me the place else is there such a strong system,” Mr Kumar added.
Congress delegation had raised 20 complaints to the ECI, which CEC Rajiv mentioned will probably be replied to individually and will probably be posted for everybody to see too.
“We now have gotten round 20 complaints concerning EVMs, we’ll deal with them individually, reality by reality. We’ll convey to every candidate our response, as a result of it’s our responsibility and inform it quickly. We can even publish our responses for everybody,” CEC Rajiv Kumar added.
Notably, Congress had alleged that various EVM battery ranges throughout completely different polling stations in Haryana may need impacted the ballot outcomes on October 8 through which the BJP returned to energy third time in a row, defying ballot predictions. Congress claimed that on EVMs with 99 per cent cost Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) received, whereas different machines which had 60 per cent cost Congress received.
Talking to ANI on October 12, Congress chief Pawan Khera, additionally mentioned, “We now have despatched an inventory of 20 seats to the Election Fee concerning which our candidates have submitted written and verbal complaints of 99 per cent battery cost. It is a unusual coincidence that the machines which displayed 99 per cent battery cost had been those on which Congress misplaced. The machines with 60-70 per cent battery cost are those on which Congress received. Why did this occur?”
The Congress in Haryana couldn’t capitalise on the ten years of anti-incumbency of the BJP authorities. The BJP received 48 out of 90 seats within the Haryana meeting, whereas Congress managed to win 37 seats. Independents received 3 seats, and Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) secured 2 seats.
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