NEW DELHI, APRIL 12 (AGENCIES): Even as major Opposition parties met President, Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday and raised issue of alleged EVM tampering during their meeting, the Election Commission has come out with an ‘open challenge’ to hack the machines from the first week of May. The four-level challenge will be conducted in Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi. The challenge will be open to people from the domain of technology as also the political parties for ten days. “From first week of May, experts, scientists, technocrats can come for a week or 10 days and try to hack the machines,” an official source said. They said the challenge will be open for a week or 10 days and will have various levels, as per PTI. The Commission had announced a similar challenge in 2009 and it claimed no one could hack its electronic voting machines (EVMs). Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and senior party leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge, and Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury were part of the delegation that submitted a memorandum to the President on alleged tampering with the EVMs.
