Hack? Yes. Hack? No: Elon Musk vs Rajeev Chandrasekhar On EVMs

Former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said he'd be happy to run a tutorial on secure EVMs for Elon Musk

Tesla chief Elon Musk and former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar have started a debate on X (formerly Twitter) on whether the world should switch to paper voting and discard electronic voting machines (EVMs) over possible risks of being hacked and manipulated. This is a huge sweeping generalization statement that implies no one can build secure digital hardware. Wrong. @elonmusk 's view may apply to US n other places - where they use regular compute platforms to build Internet connected Voting machines.But Indian EVMs are custom... https://t.co/GiaCqU1n7O EVMs in India are a "black box," and nobody is allowed to scrutinize them.Serious concerns are being raised about transparency in our electoral process.Democracy ends up becoming a sham and prone to fraud when institutions lack accountability. https://t.co/nysn5S8DCFpic.twitter.com/7sdTWJXOAb

Later, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also joined in, backing Mr Musk's apprehension of EVMs.

Mr Musk set the ball rolling with his post questioning EVMs' reliability, referring to media reports that Puerto Rico's elections saw voting irregularities in hundreds of EVMs.