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CEC defends EVMs with rhyme and reasons

IndiaTimes Saturday, 16 March 2024
CEC Rajiv Kumar defended EVMs with Urdu poetry, calling skeptics out for blaming the machines for their own unfulfilled desires. Kumar took a dig at self-proclaimed experts using questionable prototypes to display the fallibility of real EVMs and VVPATs on social media reminding them how Supreme Court and high courts have heard EVM-related challenges 40 times in the past and rejected each of them.
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