The electronic voting machine issue has been raised again, two weeks after the announcement of Lok Sabha election results by the opposition. It is based on a tweet by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. In a post on his social media platform X, Musk wrote: “We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high.” Musk was reacting to alleged irregularities discovered in EVMs during the primary elections in Puerto Rico. He was reacting to a tweet by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an independent candidate in US presidential elections, in which Kennedy had referred to irregularities in EVMs. Kennedy Jr wrote: “Puerto Rico’s primary elections just experienced hundreds of voting irregularities related to electronic voting machines, according to the Associated Press.OPINION | EVMs: FREE, FAIR AND FAST POLLING
The electronic voting machine issue has been raised again, two weeks after the announcement of Lok Sabha election results by the opposition. It is based on a tweet by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. In a post on his social media platform X, Musk wrote: “We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high.” Musk was reacting to alleged irregularities discovered in EVMs during the primary elections in Puerto Rico. He was reacting to a tweet by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an independent candidate in US presidential elections, in which Kennedy had referred to irregularities in EVMs. Kennedy Jr wrote: “Puerto Rico’s primary elections just experienced hundreds of voting irregularities related to electronic voting machines, according to the Associated Press.
