NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said EVMs in India are a "black box" that no one is allowed to check, and said "serious concerns" are being raised over transparency in India's electoral process. .
Gandhi said, "When institutions lack accountability, democracy becomes a sham and prone to fraud." He also tagged a media report which claimed that a relative of the Shiv Sena candidate who won the election from Mumbai's North West by 48 votes was in possession of a phone. Unlocks an EVM.
The former Congress President also tagged Elon Musk's post on X in which he had talked about abolishing EVMs.
Musk had said in his post, "We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, although small, is still very high."
Opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now and had demanded 100 percent counting of VVPAT slips, which was not allowed.
Gandhi said, "When institutions lack accountability, democracy becomes a sham and prone to fraud." He also tagged a media report which claimed that a relative of the Shiv Sena candidate who won the election from Mumbai's North West by 48 votes was in possession of a phone. Unlocks an EVM.
The former Congress President also tagged Elon Musk's post on X in which he had talked about abolishing EVMs.
Musk had said in his post, "We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, although small, is still very high."
Opposition parties have been raising concerns over EVMs for some time now and had demanded 100 percent counting of VVPAT slips, which was not allowed.
