Aggrieved candidates, who have applied for Supreme Court-directed checking of EVMs for tampering post Lok Sabha and Assembly results, have been given various choices by the Election Commission, including picking machines from any polling station in an Assembly segment and opting for a mock poll and mock VVPAT slip count.
According to standard operating procedure issued on Tuesday by the Election Commission, the candidates who came number two and three have been given a vast number of random tests to choose from.
The Election Commission said that by going beyond controlled environment check and verification process of burnt memory eliminates the possibility or apprehension of any bias or hidden functionality in the firmware.
The Election Commission has received eight applications from aggrieved candidates, including those from the BJP and the Congress, for verification of tampering or modification in micro-controller chips embedded in the EVMs post declaration of the Lok Sabha election results on June 4.
This story is from the July 17, 2024 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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