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Mumbai: The Maha Vikas Aghadi – thumped last week in the Maharashtra election – is planning a national protest against the credibility of EVMs, or electronic voting machines, which it blames for its defeat. The MVA – fronted by the Congress and the Shiv Sena and NCP factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar –…
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav (File). New Delhi: Akhilesh Yadav has underlined his distrust of EVMs, or Electronic Voting Machines, stating he would be loath to change his opinion even if he were to win all of Uttar Pradesh’s 80 Lok Sabha seats. “I did not trust EVMs yesterday, I don’t trust them today. Even…
Rajeev Chandrasekhar said going by the Tesla chief’s logic, “every Tesla car can be hacked”. New Delhi: Former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who had offered US billionaire Elon Musk a “tutorial” on Indian Electronic Voting Machines, today doubled down on his argument, saying going by the Tesla chief’s logic, “every Tesla car can be hacked”….
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Elon Musk’s statement on EVMs is a “huge sweeping generalisation” New Delhi: First introduced in 2004, electronic voting machines include two units — control and balloting — which are connected by a cable. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has triggered a debate on the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs). While citing concern…
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Multiple social media users shared a video showing a group of men standing on a goods carrier and purportedly holding EVMs in their hands. The voice in the background, seemingly of the person recording the video, claims that the BJP was openly doing an ‘EVM scam’. The timing of the social media post insinuated that…
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Rahul Gandhi had raised concerns about the operation of EVMs. Mumbai: In a war of words between the BJP and Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, BJP leader Nalin Kohli on Monday criticized Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent comments questioning the integrity of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Kohli condemned Rahul Gandhi’s remarks,…
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Source code is a set of instructions and statements of a programmer using a computer programming language New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking an independent audit of source code of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) used by the Election Commission, saying no “actionable material” was placed to indicate…
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