As Arvind Kejriwal flays Election Commission over EVMs, poll body hits back with ‘open challenge’

The controversies surrounding EVMs have made headlines with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BSP chief Mayawati raising allegations over the trustworthiness of the machines. Rejecting all these allegations and allaying concerns, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has come up with an ‘open challenge’ to test the credibility of EVMs, according to The Indian Express. "We will on fix a date for this open challenge. In 2009, too, the ECI had thrown an open challenge for anyone to demonstrate how EVMs owned by the ECI can be tampered with. No one could prove it. Since such apprehensions have been raised once again, we have decided to repeat the exercise to put all doubts to rest," said the report.