In order to prevent tampering, the Maharashtra National Assembly on Monday demanded the installation of cell phone jammer in the locker rooms, the storage of electronic voting machines and voter verifiable paper control boxes in the locker rooms and in the counting. It also requires applicants to be allowed to choose the EVM and VVPAT that are to be calculated for the difference, rather than the random sampling procedure currently followed.
State Assembly Speaker Ashok Chawan led a delegation consisting of Ban Jagtapu, Nasim Khan and Baba Sidik meeting with Ashwani Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer of Maharashtra, to propose "preventive measures" for the elections " free and fair ”. “You must use wifi jammers because you can use mobile towers and wireless networks such as WiFi to tamper with the EVM. They must be installed in locker rooms and during the money counting process.”
The Kuomintang party, a party ally, expressed fear that ruling party candidates would tamper with the EVM and called on the election committee to ban candidates from entering the locker rooms. NCP Chairman Jayant Patil said in a letter to Kumar that modern technology can be used to tamper with EVM using remote systems.
At the same time, Maharashtra election officials dismissed these concerns. A senior official, who asked not to be named, said: "It is impossible to hack him. If so, he would have been tempted. The fear seems unfounded, but the final decision will be made by the CEO. "
“Under this process, collectors or election officials select five machines in parliamentary constituencies to vote on VVPAT. Instead, we require applicants to be allowed to choose which five EVMs they want to compare to VVPAT. Our demand is that a VVPAT fine should be imposed at 50% of the EVM, but the case is still pending in the Supreme Court, ”said Chavan.
The congressman also asks the CEO to announce the results of each round of statistics only after election officials have properly prepared and signed it. Chawan said, "The phone jammer installation will organize hackers to modify the results, which will eliminate any possibility of number change advertised on the central and central servers."