Sources from the election commission denied on friday that the nation's electronic voting machines (EVMs) are susceptible to hacking, claiming that they function similarly to basic calculators without internet or infrared connections.
Some nations use "electronic voting systems" that are a combination of multiple systems, machines, and processes, including various private networks like the Internet, according to the sources, citing statements made by U.S. director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that her office has evidence of vulnerabilities to hacking of electronic voting systems for manipulating votes.
India employs electronic voting devices, which function similarly to "simple, correct and accurate calculators" and are not able to be connected to the internet, WiFi, or infrared, they emphasized.
The supreme court has examined these machines in court, and political parties always verify them at different points in time, such as when conducting "mock polls" before the commencement of the official polling process.
They noted that over five crore paper trail machine slips had been checked and compared throughout the counting process in front of political parties.
Last year, tech tycoon Elon Musk demanded that EVMs be phased out due to the possibility of human or artificial intelligence (AI) hacking.
In response to Musk's assertion, then-chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar stated in january that "a global IT expert said EVMs can be hacked while our elections were going on." In the United States, electronic voting mechanisms are used instead of electronic voting machines.
"The comments caused chaos in this place. According to the same expert, the US takes more than a month to complete counting, whereas india takes just one day. We simply follow the stories that make sense. However, Musk had not been named by Kumar.
Some nations use "electronic voting systems" that are a combination of multiple systems, machines, and processes, including various private networks like the Internet, according to the sources, citing statements made by U.S. director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that her office has evidence of vulnerabilities to hacking of electronic voting systems for manipulating votes.
India employs electronic voting devices, which function similarly to "simple, correct and accurate calculators" and are not able to be connected to the internet, WiFi, or infrared, they emphasized.
The supreme court has examined these machines in court, and political parties always verify them at different points in time, such as when conducting "mock polls" before the commencement of the official polling process.
They noted that over five crore paper trail machine slips had been checked and compared throughout the counting process in front of political parties.
Last year, tech tycoon Elon Musk demanded that EVMs be phased out due to the possibility of human or artificial intelligence (AI) hacking.
In response to Musk's assertion, then-chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar stated in january that "a global IT expert said EVMs can be hacked while our elections were going on." In the United States, electronic voting mechanisms are used instead of electronic voting machines.
"The comments caused chaos in this place. According to the same expert, the US takes more than a month to complete counting, whereas india takes just one day. We simply follow the stories that make sense. However, Musk had not been named by Kumar.
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