Govt will Reward Rs 1 Million Who will Hack Pakistan-made EVM: Shibli Faraz
Minister further said, “The election commission does not want to conduct elections through the EVM.” Faraz’s statement came after officials of the ECP had walked out of a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs. On the other hand, ECP had said in a document submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs. The ECP said EVMs can be “hacked”, easily “tampered with”, and the “software can be easily changed”. The machine can “misuse state power”, and it “cannot prevent horse-trading”, the ECP had maintained. the ECP said in its objections. The ECP highlighted it did not have enough funding to roll out the machines throughout the country. It also asked the government how it can ensure the machine’s transparency. In this war of statements, the minister said people who had won elections through “rigging” do not want the use of electronic voting machines. There has been a heated debate between the government, the opposition, and other stakeholders over the use of EVMs. Faraz mentioned the ECP had sent a 37-point objection letter to the government. In this letter, 27 points were not related to EVMs — they were about the ECP’s capacity to use them. He further clarified that the ECP’s technical team held its first meeting over the EVMs, and the Ministry of Science and Technology has provided them with almost all the reports they had sought. He also said that the remaining reports will be sent to them in the coming days. Source: TheNews
