The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday said that no electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly poll had been deployed in South Africa as alleged by the Congress and asked the party to “publicly expose” the “sources” that spread such false information.
The poll body was responding to charges made by Congress MP and general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala in a letter written on May 8 wherein he had raised concerns about the “reuse” in the Karnataka election of EVMs previously used in South Africa, without the due process of revalidation and reverification.
The commission said that neither had the EVMs been sent to South Africa nor had the EC ever imported EVMs from any country whatsoever.
