The petition filed by Jana Chaitanya in the Supreme Court against tampering of Electronic Voting Machines during the elections had been quashed. The court directed the applicant to take their grivence to the Election Commission Of India who will be able to solve the problem.
The case in the Supreme court was filed when an election watch-dog and an NGO from Hyderabad demonstrated 'tampering' of EVMs and claimed that these machines could be easily manipulated.Explaining the possibilities of manipulations and insertions of pre-programmed chips, Hari K Prasad of NetIndia and the NGO Election Group's Convenor V V Rao said the chips are imported from Japan and there is a possibility of giving 60 per cent of total votes polled through the EVMs by one particular candidate (party) if the chips are programmed in such a manner.