AMN / New Delhi
Election Commission today rejected the demand of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for allowing the ‘change or tampering’ of the mother-board of Electronic Voting Machine(EVM) during the ‘EVM challenge’ which will be held on June 3.
In the reply to the AAP, the poll panel said that allowing any change of the ‘motherboard’ or any intenal circuit etc of the EVM would be like manufacturing a new machine and introduce newly made EVMs in ECI system, which is ‘implausible and irrational’.
As any person with basic common sense will be able to appreciate, a non-ECI EVM or an EVM with a different ‘internal circuit’ is simply a ‘different machine’ or at best a ‘look alike’ of ECI EVM and hence, can never be guaranteed by ECI to give correct results.
‘Such a scenario is completely ruled out within our administrative safeguards and stringent security protocols and that’s why it is not proposed in the ensuing EVM-challenge of the Commission,’ the poll panel said.
Aam Aadmi Party in a memorandum submitted to the EC yesterday had urged it to reconsider the terms which it laid that the participants would not be allowed to tamper with or change the mother-board of the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) machines.