The Election Commission has responded to the Aam Aadmi Party’s apprehensions over EVM tampering, providing a point-by-point rebuttal to the issues Delhi’s ruling party had raised in a missive to the poll panel on Wednesday.
The EC has asked the AAP to take a “holistic view of the totality of facts and truths” about Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The party is among several that have questioned the use of EVMs in elections.
The poll panel has expressed hope that its letter “dispels all doubts and aspersions” raised by the party.
The AAP had cited alleged printing of symbols of one party, irrespective of what button is pressed, in Bhind (Madhya Pradesh) and Dholpur (Rajasthan), and news regarding zero votes for a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation candidate.
‘Factually incorrect’The Commission said all the three incidents cited in the party’s letter were “factually incorrect, misleading and devoid of any truth”.
On the AAP’s recent demonstration of the tampering of EVMs in the Delhi Assembly recently, the Commission said any “look-alike machine” is a different gadget, which is manifestly designed and made to function in a “tampered” manner and has no relevance, incidence or bearing on its EVMs.