Sunday , December 29 2024

EVMs can be hacked

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Mumbai: After the Maharashtra elections, when the opposition is continuously raising questions about EVMs, Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RASP) President Mahadev Jankar, who was an ally of Mahayuti during the last Lok Sabha elections, has raised questions about EVMs and claimed that whether There has been an uproar over the possibility of hacking EVMs.

Jankar said that I myself am an engineer and I know everything. Mahayuti has won many seats due to EVM scam. Jankar said that we have objection to EVM. EVMs have created a threat to democracy in the country. He made an even more shocking claim that since the Supreme Court and the Election Commission belong to him, this system cannot be called democratic.

Jankar’s party had formed an alliance with BJP in the last Lok Sabha elections. Jankar then contested the elections as an NDA candidate in Parbhani. However, he lost this election.

Knowingly, he has already been a minister in the Fadnavis government. However, he had differences with Mahayuti during the assembly elections. Therefore his party contested the elections alone.

-Modi-Advani opposed EVM: Bhai Jagtap

Congress leader Bhai Jagtap has raised questions on the use of EVM machines for voting. According to Jagtap, if anyone has doubts on EVMs then they should get satisfactory answers. Many petitions have also been filed in the Supreme Court in this regard. According to Jagtap, when Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had also talked about holding elections through ballot paper. At one time Lal Krishna Advani had also opposed EVM. Some people say that they are opposing EVMs because we lost the elections in Maharashtra, but this is not true. Jagtap also criticized the Election Commissioner and said that the Election Commissioner is a dog who sits outside Narendra Modi’s bungalow. The agencies created to strengthen democracy have become puppets of Modi.

– Claim of deal worth Rs 53 crore per seat to win 63 seats

– Complaint to the Election Commission Police against those claiming to hack EVMs

– In 2019 also, the Commission had filed a complaint against Syed Shuja, who lives abroad, for making a similar claim.

Mumbai: After the assembly election results in Maharashtra, where the opposition is blaming the defeat on EVMs, a video has gone viral in which a person is seen claiming to have hacked the EVMs and saying that EVMs are being tampered with. Can be done. After this video went viral, the Election Commission lodged a police complaint against the person claiming to hack the EVMs and the Mumbai Cyber ​​Police registered a case of fraud and investigated the matter further.
The claimant has been identified as Syed Shuja. In 2019 also, a complaint was filed against him by the Election Commission in Delhi for making such a claim. In the viral video, Shuja is seen claiming that he has control over 281 out of 288 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly. To ensure victory on 63 seats, he has received Rs 53 crore per seat. After this video went viral, the Election Commission said that this claim is completely false, baseless and baseless. According to the Election Commission, EVM is a standalone machine and cannot be connected to any network through WiFi or Bluetooth.

Along with this, the Election Commission has also filed a complaint against the person who created misunderstanding by making such a claim.

After receiving this complaint on November 30, Mumbai Cyber ​​​​Police registered a case under FIR number 0146/2024 under Section 43 (G) of BNL and Section 66 (D) of the IT Act in the Cyber ​​​​Police against the person seen in this video. Have done. Police station of South Mumbai.

Clarifying the matter further, the Maharashtra Election Commission CEO office further clarified that EVMs are completely tamper-proof, hence the question of tampering does not arise. The Honorable Supreme Court has expressed its faith in EVMs many times. Furthermore, the Election Commission of India has provided detailed information on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about EVMs on its website to clear any doubts.

– Defeat of Sharad Pawar’s candidate against Ajit Pawar

– Yugendra Pawar paid Rs 9 lakh for testing 19 EVMs

– 11 losing candidates paid Rs 66 lakh for verification of 137 EVMs

Pune: In a dramatic post-poll twist, eleven candidates, including Baramati candidate Yugendra Pawar of NCP (Sharad Pawar), who lost to Ajit Pawar, have questioned the authenticity of EVMs in their constituencies. Yugendra Pawar has applied for verification of microcontrollers of 19 EVMs and paid an application fee of Rs 8.96 lakh. Apart from this, RCP’s Prashant Jagtap and Congress’s Ramesh Bagwe also expressed doubts and paid lakhs of rupees of application fee for EVM verification. These eleven candidates seeking re-verification of microcontrollers have jointly spent Rs. A huge amount of Rs 66.64 lakh has been paid. Apart from Yugendra Pawar, Prashant Jagtap has sought re-verification of 27 EVMs from Hadapsar, for which he has paid the highest application fee of more than twelve lakh rupees. Similarly, Rahul Kalate of Chinchwad has paid Rs 11 lakh for testing 25 EVMs and Congress candidate Sanjay Jagtap of Purandar has paid Rs 9.9 lakh for testing 21 EVMs.

The petition was filed in compliance with the Supreme Court’s direction that the second and third placed candidates can get five percent of the EVMs of their voter association verified within seven days of the declaration of the election results. The district authorities have sent these appeals to the Chief Election Office of the state. As part of the re-examination, mock polls will be conducted among the candidates, construction engineers and election officials.