Opposition leaders have raised considerations over the viability of the digital voting machines (EVM) and stated that they may urge the Election Commission of India (ECI) to make clear their suspicion over the usage of voting machines in elections. The leaders met at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar’s residence. According to information company ANI, the assembly was not attended by the Trinamool Congress.

Senior Congress chief Digvijay Singh stated that the scheduled all-party assembly to show the prototype of distant EVMs was turned down after the Opposition events objected the necessity for distant voting.

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“The ECI had called an all-party meeting over remote EVMs. There, almost unanimously everyone objected remote voting…There is an apprehension in the country about this,” Singh stated after at a press meet.

The assembly was held after the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar stated that he’ll reply to doubts raised by political events and civil society activists over EVM.

The Congress chief identified that ECI stated earlier stated that EVM is a standalone machine, nonetheless, later accepted in any other case because the names of candidates and image of respective political events are embedded in it on-line. “They used to say that it has a one-time programmable chip. But now they accept it has multiple programmable chip,” he added.

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal stated that the query on the electoral course of via EVMs had been being raised a number of occasions. He additionally stated that every time the machines had been discovered points with the machines, it was discovered that ‘the vote goes to the BJP’.

“It is a fact that no other country in the world uses EVMs for voting. Then why are these machines being used in our country? The foundation of democracy is at stake if the ‘one man, one vote’ can be manipulated,” he stated.

In May 2022, the civil society submitted a letter to the ECI over doubts concerning the manipulation of EVMs.

Pawar had earlier stated that the assembly was referred to as within the curiosity of free and truthful elections and to the views by eminent professionals.

(With ANI inputs)