Former union minister and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal issued a checklist for Lok Sabha polls candidates and counting agents, to check whether the electronic voting machine (EVM) has been tampered with.
Sibal told presspersons, “Voting results will be out on June 4. I want to make the public and the political parties aware of what you should do when the machines (EVMs) open. So I have made a chart for all the parties and all the counting agents. In this chart, the CU (control unit) number, BU (ballot unit) number and VVPAT ID will be present. The third column is very important- June 4 is written in the third column and the time when the machine will be opened is written below. If there is any difference in this time then you will know that the machine has already been opened somewhere.”
Sibal added, “The serial number of the control unit will also come here in written format, you have to match that too. When the total votes polled comes, then look at it carefully so that when there are more votes in the counting, the problem may come again. Keep in mind two things, do not press the result button until the verification is done in the above column and if there is a difference between that timing and the timing of the result, then there is something wrong.”
The former Congress leader said he did so to ensure there is no possibility of tampering. “There are a lot of people who are saying that these EVMs are possibly tampered with. We want to make sure that there is no possibility of tampering. We are neither saying that they are tampered with nor that they are not tampered.”
The counting of votes for Lok Sabha polls will be conducted on June 4. Six phases of polls have been completed and the last phase of polling will be held on June 1. As many as 57 constituencies goes to polls in the last phase.
-with inputs from ANI.