Behind AAP’s Delhi Assembly EVM show: Two months of preparation, 25 dummy runs

A team comprising an IIT graduate, tech experts and MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj, who is himself a computer engineer, were working for the past two months to crack the ‘secret code’ through which, the AAP claims, an electronic voting machine (EVM) could be hacked.
The process took pace after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lost the Punjab elections in March but the team got “success” last week when they claimed to have “successfully” hacked a replica of an EVM.
Party sources, however, refused to reveal the source of the EVM and how they prepared the replica but challenged the Election Commission to give them voting machines so that they could show how to hack them.
“People with lot of good intentions are behind it and part of our system. Exposing them will be dishonouring them,” said Bhardwaj.
Bhardwaj said after ‘breaking the code’ last week, the team carried out dummy runs at least 25 times. On Tuesday, after reaching the assembly, Bhardwaj and the team carried a test run to avoid glitches.