Issues relating to the “vulnerability” and “unreliability” of electronic voting machines have come up regularly in the context of the 2019 general election. However, BEL said, on January 2, 2018, in response to Roy’s RTI query, that it had supplied 19,69,932 EVMs to the ECI between 1989-90 and 2014-15. A cumulative assessment of payment statements obtained for transactions between the …
The self-proclaimed Indian cyber expert, who alleged that the 2014 general election was ‘rigged’, was not an employee of the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. as claimed by him, the public sector undertaking said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference in London via Skype fro the United States, the man, identified as Syed Shuja, on January 21 claimed that the …