How Can VVPATs and EVMs Be Manipulated During Elections?

Are your votes being manipulated? The information we’ve discovered, says they very well could be!

On this episode of The Big Story, we look into how VVPATs, which were introduced to ensure voters that their votes have been correctly registered in EVMs, can be manipulated to give specific results.

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We’re bang in the middle of state Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, with more states going to polls later this year.

And that brings us to our topic today – are your votes being manipulated? The information we’ve dug up, says they very well could be! Today we look into how VVPATs, which were introduced to ensure voters had their votes correctly registered in EVMs, can be manipulated to give specific results.

Poonam Agarwal, who heads The Quint’s investigative team, and IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who was an election officer in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections joins us in today’s episode of the Big Story. Tune in to know more!