EVMs are foolproof: Delhi state poll commission

Delhi State Election Commission has said the generation-1 electronic voting machines (EVMs), brought in for the municipal polls in Delhi are foolproof and the programme used in them cannot be manipulated. 

State Election Commissioner SK Srivastava said that the process is fairly randomised and so the programme used in these machines cannot be manipulated to benefit any one candidate or party.According to the State Election Commissioner, these machines are not



networked either by wire or wirelessly to any other machine or system, so, there is no possibility of its data corruption. 

Mr Srivastava's remarks assume significance as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had demanded that the municipal polls be postponed by a month or two till arrangements are made to use EVMs equipped with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail, VVPAT. Generation-1 machines are those which were manufactured before 2006.