Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Amid the ongoing confrontation between the government and Opposition over electronic voting machines (EVMs), senior PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal termed the devices “rigging machines” during a demo presented live on television.
The science and technology Minister on Thursday gave a briefing on EVMs in the presence of Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz, PML-N’s Ahsan Iqbal and PPP leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar.
During a discussion on the government’s electoral reforms, Shibli Faraz said beneficiaries of the obsolete system don’t want the use of EVMs in the next elections.
He said rigging is not possible through EVMs as no vote would be rejected and tampering is not possible with the latest technology.
He said the voting machines developed by the PTI government are user friendly and added that ballot papers will also be used along with EVMs in the elections.
Rejecting the minister’s claims of the machines being hack-proof, Ahsan Iqbal said the real problem of the electoral process in Pakistan is not about the law, but the system.
