EVMs Can't Be Hacked Like Pagers: Poll Body Chief On Congress's Charges
NDTV
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar explained that the batteries put in EVMs are single-use batteries, and the signatures of each political party's representative are also taken on them.
Dismissing allegations of 'varying EVM battery levels', Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said Electronic Voting Machines are totally "safe and robust," and have batteries like a calculator, not like a mobile which will be charged everyday.
CEC Kumar explained that EVMs had three-layered security including the batteries and in each level signatures of political party representatives were taken to ensure transparency.
"People also ask, if pagers can be hacked then why can't EVMs be hacked? Pagers are connected but EVMs are not," he said during a press conference while announcing the poll dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections on Tuesday.
