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Itanagar: Dismissing claims that electronic voting machines could be tampered with, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawala on Jun 5 said that private manufacturers, which failed to sell their machines for use in polls, were behind the propaganda that EVMs were vulnerable.
"I would not like to name the private manufacturers. But one of them is behind the latest move," Chawla said in reply to a question about a recent research by a professor of University of Michigan and his students on an EVM look-alike which could be wirelessly hacked for manipulating results.
Chawala said the machines used in the study were not originals. "Look-alike machines have chips different from ours which are developed by two well known navaratna public sector companies. We have no doubt that our EVMs are cent per cent tamper-proof and foolproof," he said. He said the Election Commission had 1.
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