EVMs clean, says Karnataka CM

The Congress may be sceptical and carping about the vulnerability of electronic voting machines to tampering, but for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, it is not an issue, at least in Karnataka.

“We cannot say tampering (with EVMs) has taken place in these elections,” he said, buouyed by the victory of the Congress candidates in the Nanjangud and Gundlupet Assembly by-polls, in which the party retained both the seats in spite of a tough fight by the BJP.

His party had only spoken about the “scope” for tampering, Siddaramaiah told reporters when asked about his stand on EVMs in the light of the outcome of the by-polls.

Siddaramaiah said he was told that the EVMs used in the two by-polls had Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).