Delhi MCD Election 2017: AAP still doesn't trust EVMs, demands ballot papers

Ahead of MCD polls in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party is not giving up on ballot papers and fears that EVMs could be tampered.

New Delhi, Apr 6: The AAP on Thursday renewed its demand to use paper ballots, alleging that the Electronic Voting Machines could be tampered with.

Citing media reports, the party claimed that nearly 30,000 ballot units and 20,000 control units have been ordered by the state Election Commission for MCD polls.

AAP's Delhi unit convenor Dilip Pandey claimed, of these 4,600 are faulty. Ballot units are the ones through which people cast their vote while control units record these votes and it is under the supervision of election officer.

"The suspicion that the EVMs could be faulty and tampered now becomes more solid with this report. We again urge the state EC to postpone the poll dates so that traditional paper ballots could be used for MCD elections," Pandey said.

Amid EC's plan to invite politicians to try and hack EVMs, the AAP has asked the poll body to allow it to pick machines randomly from Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, where Assembly elections were recently held.

The party, in a letter to chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Wednesday, also requested the EC to provide the details of components like micro-controllers, and chips used for storage of memory in voting machines.

PTI