In a first, a newspaper ad calls for action against EVMs

Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta paid for an advertisement in The Indian Express on Saturday, citing flaws which can tamper with EVMs quite easily. He claims malicious codes can be entered in the machine to change what the EVM shows by way of results.

In the advertisement he explains how VVPAT can steal votes.

Let’s say a voter votes for BANANA. The VVPAT will print banana, turn the light off, and roll back the paper. Voter-2 votes for banana, the VVPAT turns the light on, shows the same banana paper. Then the machine turns the light off, but instead of a banana, prints apple, as it has been manipulated.

Moreover, voters cannot verify as the machines have dark colour tainted glass and not transparent glass.

He asks why the VVPAT is fitted with dark black glass, one way glass, and not ordinary colorless transparent glass? Why is the light inside it ON all the time?

He proposes a solution of either a colourless, transparent VVPAT machine, or no EVM at all.

He believes even a VVPAT can be rigged; thus rendering it useless again, so he proposes a complete removal of EVMs.

Rahul Mehta is the founder of Right to Recall Party, and has contested in elections in years 2009, 2011, 2014. An Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi alumni, 1990; he then went to study MS in Rutgers University.

He owns a YouTube channel where he tries to explain concepts of EVM tampering and the Right to Recall. He wants to replace EVMS with paper ballots and does not trust in EVMs for voting.

Here’s his latest video on the same: