Evm: Dangers Of Trusting Them Too Much

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EVMs reason for poll boycott: Jaya

Swati Das | Chennai

‘Machines are not tamper-proof’

It has been for a long time that AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa has been protesting against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and finally to drive home the argument that EVMs are not tamper-proof, her party has decided to boycott the August 18 by-election in five Assembly segments in Tamil Nadu.

Giving this clarification in a statement, attached with an article on how students of Rice University in Houston were learning hands-on just how easy it was to wreak havoc on software programmes used in the EVMs, Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said: “This should come as an eye-opener not only to the Election Commission of India and the judiciary but also to the voting public. In a democracy, every voter should know whether the vote cast has gone to the candidate or the party it was meant for. In the absence of such a certainty, the entire democratic process will be rendered a mockery. It is to ensure that democracy, in its true sense, is brought back that the AIADMK decided to boycott by-election to five Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu.”

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