As Tulsi Gabbard Backs Paper Ballots, Poll Body Sources’ EVM Clarification

Election Fee sources on Friday rejected strategies that digital voting machines (EVMs) used within the nation are susceptible to hacking, asserting that the machines work like easy calculators which aren’t related to the web or infrared.

Referring to the reported remarks of United States Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that her workplace has obtained proof of vulnerabilities to the hacking of digital voting programs for manipulating votes, the sources identified that some international locations use “digital voting programs” that are a mixture of a number of programs, machines and processes together with numerous personal networks together with the Web.

They underlined that India makes use of digital voting machines that work like “easy, right and correct calculators” and can’t be related to both the web, WiFi or infrared.

These machines have stood authorized scrutiny by the Supreme Courtroom and are invariably checked by the political events at numerous levels, together with the conduct of “mock polls” earlier than precise polling begins.

Greater than 5 crore paper path machine slips have been verified and matched whereas counting in entrance of political events, they identified.

Tech mogul Elon Musk had final 12 months referred to as for the elimination of EVMs, citing the danger of being hacked by people or synthetic intelligence (AI).

The then chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar had in January responded to Musk’s declare saying, “A worldwide IT professional stated EVMs will be hacked whereas our elections have been occurring. They (the US) haven’t got EVMs, they’ve digital voting mechanisms.

“The remarks created pandemonium right here. The identical professional later stated that India takes a single day to complete counting whereas the US takes over a month. We simply comply with the narratives which are suiting.” Mr Kumar had, nevertheless, not named Musk.

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