Former CECs swear by reliability of EVMs

With some parties questioning the reliability of EVMs, former Election Commission chiefs have asserted that the machines are tamper-proof.Stressing that EVMs have proved their worth for the last 19 years, they urged the losing parties not to pass their "unhappiness of the loss" on to the machines. Former Chief Election Commissioners M S Gill, V S Sampath and H S Brahma told PTI that the machines are "reliable and tamper-proof" and political parties should not question their reliability if they lose elections. The Election Commission had on Thursday, in a strongly worded statement, rejected as "baseless and wild" the charge the electronic voting machines (EVMs) were tampered with.