Now, AAP invites public to try & hack EVM machines

Terming the Election Commission’s EVM challenge a “farce”, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday opened registration for its parallel challenge and invited people to hack the voting machines under the poll panel’s guidelines.

The AAP also invited the poll panel and Bharat ElectronicsBSE -0.35 % Limited — the company that makes EVMs — to take part in the challenge along with their technical expert teams.

AAP legislator Saurabh Bhardwaj said the participants can get themselves registered. It said the registration process will remain open for a week and then a hackathon will be organised.

“We are launching our EVM challenge today and people can register themselves through a link on our website. Any hacker can participate and hack our machine under the conditions set by the EC. Each participant will be given a four-hour slot to tamper with our machine,” Bhardwaj said.

The party is inviting hackers to test the EVM which Bhardwaj had used in the Delhi Assembly to “prove” his allegations of tampering. The AAP has said its parallel EVM challenge will prove the one being held by the poll panel was “pointless”.

AAP had decided not to take part in the Election Commission’s challenge after its request for a change in the terms and conditions was shot down by the panel.