Chief Election Commissioner targets Elon Musk.
The Election Commission has announced the dates of Delhi Assembly elections on Tuesday. Voting for 70 assembly seats in Delhi will take place on February 5. Meanwhile, the election results will be released on February 8. Let us tell you that this was the last press conference of Rajiv Kumar as the Chief Election Commissioner of India. He openly responded to the allegations against EVMs in the press conference. During this period, an occasion also came when Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, in a gesture without taking his name, also targeted veteran industrialist Elon Musk. Let us tell you that Elon Musk had claimed that EVMs can be hacked. Now CEC Rajeev Kumar has responded to his claim.
No EVM in their own country- Rajeev Kumar
Rajiv Kumar said that a wrong narrative is presented regarding EVM. Taking a dig at Musk, he said in gestures that when we had elections, he said that EVMs can be hacked. Whereas there are no EVMs there. There (America) there is an electronic voting mechanism, there are electronic voting machines which record the votes. Rajiv Kumar said that despite this, there was an uproar in India over Musk’s statement that EVMs can be hacked.
After this, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar also said that later Elon Musk himself was seen praising the election system in India. Musk said that it took us one and a half month to count the votes. In India, counting is done in just one day. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has clearly said that there is no evidence of unreliability or any flaw in EVMs. There is no question of virus or bug in EVMs.
What did Elon Musk say?
In fact, billionaire Elon Musk had earlier claimed that the EVMs used in elections can be hacked. However, after the presidential elections in America, he was seen praising the Indian election system. Musk had said that 640 million votes were counted in India in 1 day. However, counting of votes continues even after several days in California, USA.
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