Engineers were hired to hack electronic voting machines, alleges Hardik Patel
Ahmedabad Collector Avantika Singh said that the Patidar leader’s allegations were baseless.
Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Sunday alleged that 140 software engineers from an Ahmedabad-based company had been hired to hack about 5,000 Electronic Voting Machines, or EVMs, using their source cards. Patel’s allegations come a day before the Gujarat Assembly election results.
He followed up this claim with a tweet in which he alleged that attempts had been made to hack the machines used in tribal and Patel-dominated areas such as Visnagar, Tankara, Radhanpur, Vav, Jetpur and Savli.
“People will laugh off my claims, but if a divine creation such as the human body can be tampered with, an EVM can also be hacked. ATMs can be hacked, why not EVMs?” he asked.
अहमदाबाद की एक कंपनी के द्वारा १४० सोफ्टवेर एंजिनियर के हाथों से ५००० EVM मशीन के सोर्स कोर्ड से हेकिंग करने की तैयारी हैं।
— Hardik Patel (@HardikPatel_) December 16, 2017
Though he did not say who was behind this, Patel had alleged on Friday that the Bharatiya Janata Party would try and tamper with the machines to win the Gujarat elections.
विसनगर,पाटन,राधनपुर,टँकारा,ऊँजा,वाव,जेतपुर,राजकोट-६८,६९,७०,लाठी-बाबरा,छोटाउदेपुर,संतरामपुर,साँवली,मांगरोल,मोरवाहड़फ,नादोद,राजपीपला,डभोई और ख़ास करके पटेल और आदिवासी इलाक़े की विधानसभा क्षेत्र में EVM सोर्स कोर्ड से हेकिंग करने का प्रयास हुवा हैं।
— Hardik Patel (@HardikPatel_) December 17, 2017
मेरी बातों पर सिर्फ़ हँसी आएगी लेकिन विचार कोई नहीं करेगा
— Hardik Patel (@HardikPatel_) December 17, 2017
भगवान के द्वारा बनाए गई हमारे शरीर में छेड़छाड़ हो सकती है तो मानव के द्वारा बनाई गई EVM मशीन में क्यों छेड़छाड़ नहीं हो सकती !! ATM हेक हो सकते है तो EVM क्यूँ नहीं !!!
Ahmedabad Collector Avantika Singh dismissed Patel’s “baseless allegations”, and said the authorities need not issue any clarification. “Even if any clarification is to be issued, it will be issued by the EC [Election Commission],” she added.
"These are baseless allegations. I don't think any clarification is needed. Even if any clarification is to be issued, it will be issued by EC," says Avantika Singh, Ahmedabad collector on Hardik Patel's tweet that 140 engineers are hired to tamper with 5000 EVMs (File Pic) pic.twitter.com/0WqOTfjxJW
— ANI (@ANI) December 17, 2017