The EVM excuse: Bogey of EVM switching is an outrageous attempt to deny public opinion | The Indian Express

The EVM excuse: Bogey of EVM switching is an outrageous attempt to deny public opinion | The Indian Express

Written by Akhilesh Mishra |Updated: May 23, 2019 6:22:19 am

The writer is CEO, Bluekraft Digital Foundation and was earlier director (content) MyGov

The EVM excuse: Bogey of EVM switching is an outrageous attempt to deny public opinion

In the age of social media and screenshots, the public memory has been enhanced. They remember that Rahul Gandhi and his compatriots had raised a similar din just a few months ago and then happily accepted the results when it favoured them.

The information disseminated by the Election Commission has convinced most sane people that hacking EVMs is not possible, since they are stand-alone machines with no networking with the external world.

Scott Spencer could well have had the EVM bogey raised by the Congress party and its co-travelers in mind when he said “the trouble with excuses is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times”.