Friday, May 12, 2017The Election Commission (EC) today met leaders of 55 political parties to discuss the issue of tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The poll panel had called the meeting of 7 national and 48 state parties to talk about how reliable EVMs are after 16 parties appealed to it to revert to the ballot paper system, claiming that faith of people in EVMs had been eroded. This after the parties alleged EVMs had been tampered with to benefit a particular party in recent Assembly elections and bypolls. The EC is also likely to brief the parties about its planned EVM hacking challenge.

Source: India Today May 12, 2017 07:29 UTC