Concerns on electoral rolls, EVMs baseless

Assembly polls will be held in Delhi on Feb 5 and results will be declared on February 8

- Aditi Agrawal

rolls, and that the public can obtain them for a "nominal fee". Two copies of the electoral rolls - a hard copy with images of the electors, and a soft copy without the images - is made available at ERO level.

Before all state assembly elections, ECI conducts a Special Summary Revision (SSR), involving house-to-house surveys, physical verification by booth-level officers, and random checks by senior officials. Political parties, he said, are encouraged to appoint booth-level agents to oversee the process.

On EVMs Kumar reiterated that EVMs are not connected to the internet and can thus not be hacked. He cited a Supreme Court judgment that upheld ECI's stance on EVM reliability and deemed calls for a return to paper ballots as a "regressive step".

He underscored the involvement of political parties in the entire voting process, including the sealing of EVMs, mock polling, locking, and storage in strong rooms. "All allegations of tampering are baseless," he said.