1. In 2001, Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were used on a large scale in the State Assembly elections of Tamil Nadu, Kerala & West Bengal.
2. From day one, many engineers, voters raised concerns that large-scale vote manipulation was possible through EVMs, arguing that only 5-10 dishonest insiders could manipulate 20% to 30% of the votes.
3. The ECI challenged critics to โhackโ the machines. However, activists never claimed “hacking” was the issue. They consistently argued it was a case of inside tampering, not hacking.
4. Their demand was simple: โGive us one machine, We will show how votes can be manipulated on that very machine.โ
5. For nearly a decade, the ECI did not provide physical access to the machines for audit/verification nor addressed the specific allegation of possible inside tampering.
6. In 2010, technologist Hari Prasad stole the EVM from ECI’s office and along with collaborators, published a research paper and video demonstrating how dishonest insiders could manipulate votes via EVMs on a large scale.
7. Hari Prasad was arrested and jailed. Though public pressure secured his release on bail, his company and career suffered heavily due to harassment. Paid media buried his work, hence many of you must be hearing this name for the first time today.
8. The matter reached the courts and in 2013 the Supreme Court acknowledged Hariprasad’s video and the risk of manipulation in EVMs. SC requested ECI to introduce VVPAT machines.
9. So for nearly a decade between 1999 to 2013, ECI’s policy denied physical access to EVMs. Fair? Democratic?
10. Now from 2014 onwards, for another decade, ECI has denied voters access to new VVPAT machines.
11. Activist Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta from IIT Delhi sent a demand draft of โน40,000 to ECI requesting a VVPAT, but request was not accepted.
12. In response, Rahul Mehta built his own prototype using ECI manuals, demonstrating how paper votes can be manipulated in VVPATs through mechanisms like โblack glassโ & “light sensor”
13. Even today, ECI does not permit any voter, engineer to touch or audit an actual EVM-VVPAT machine, despite India having 18 lakh such machines in use.
14. Paid media frames debates in terms of โhacking,โ whereas the risk lies in potential inside tampering.
15. EVMs are NOT decentralised –> 15 days before elections –> Candidate Names & Symbols are loaded into EVMs. At that point all EVMs get connected to a BEL laptop which is connected to a centralised server.
So the real question, as a voter do you trust the EVMs?
Why paid media talks about everything under the sun from electoral bonds to vote chori but buries these 3 words?
Hariprasad || Rahul Mehta || Inside Tampering
Have you heard these names before?
Watch these videos below!
(๐ญ) ๐ ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ธ: https://www.indiaevm.org/
(๐) ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ก๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ข ๐๐๐ก๐ญ๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ก๐ข: https://youtu.be/VIBxCkxnOfo?feature=shared
(๐ฏ) ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ: https://youtu.be/9_heOCFXzTY?feature=shared
(๐ฐ) ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ: https://youtu.be/AzGzxgn6_rA?si=I-z8wlOvRyCf656O
(๐ฑ) ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ต๐๐น ๐๐ต๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฏ๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ต๐๐ฎ: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1At3VVisKx/
(6) ๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐? ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ : https://youtu.be/OAMOWy-mBj4?si=Dq0MoNWu6iweQidE
Timestamp: August 2025
8 Responses
An EVM, a cell phone. That’s all that is needed. Both inter connected. If you want #5 to win, press 5 from within range. No matter what the voter presses, registration will be done to the account of 5.
Hello Sir, the โcell phoneโ theory doesnโt hold much meaning because we have VVPAT. Every voter can visually verify their vote on the printed slip. So if someone is raising concerns but never talks about the possibility of paper-slip manipulation, the argument isnโt complete. Please watch this video by Rahul Chimanbhai Metha, Btech IIT Delhi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmCTki8wqE
Have a question. Agreed to these mischievous device manipulation. Wouldn’t people question, how then other parties win in some states? Just curious to know. Bcz as per this formula they should be 100% clean sweep winners.
Thanks
Sanjeev
1. The rookie mistake people make in socio – politics is not understanding the concept of Kingmakers. The people you see on TV/News are Kings, who are chosen puppets of Kingmakers.
2. Who are these Kingmakers? They are owners of weapon manufacturing companies, owners of banking/insurance/pharma companies, they own & control minerals (oil, gas) and land. They are sponsorers of media and own of social media. These kingmakers are mostly elite families from US UK (Rothschild, Rockofellor etc), hence you see 100% FDI in all sectors now.
3. Biggest misconception people have is that, either BJP or Congress manipulate votes, no they don’t have power to do so. Kingmakers who own paid media manipulate it and plant their puppets from any political party, Kingmakers understand the concept of diversification.
4. Any party who gets paid media coverage (positive or negative) is basically a party of Kingmakers. So kingmakers keep rotating their chosen puppets across multiple parties. Any geniune opposition who dares to make laws against the interest of Kingmakers is crushed using EVMs. So EVMs is the the hen which hatches golden eggs for kingmakers and they try to protect it all costs and are running them in India since last 26 years.
But how can India implement any of the things like Right to Recall, Jury system and other fair laws, as all the parties are puppets working for their own benefit and the kingmakers. Paid is media is operating from British Rule, that is also a tough a nut to crack.
Great question. I would request you to watch the following video links of Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta, Alumni IIT Delhi. (1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pIzP56yL6E (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qts5E4Qc2c (3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oORFFJE6Bgc
Post that if you have any queries feel free to call me.
Post is good๐. This is out of syllabus topic for me.๐
Laws made by the government impact your daily life anyway. So saying โitโs out of syllabusโ changes nothing. Ignoring politics wonโt stop the government from affecting you in a thousand different ways.