'Black box': Rahul Gandhi backs Tesla CEO Elon Musk's concerns over EVMs

'Black box': Rahul Gandhi backs Tesla CEO Elon Musk's concerns over EVMs

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday backed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's concerns regarding Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and called it a "black box".

"EVMs in India are a black box, and nobody is allowed to scrutinize them. Serious concerns are being raised about transparency in our electoral process.

Democracy ends up becoming a sham and prone to fraud when institutions lack accountability," Rahul Gandhi said in a post on X.

In a recent post on X, Elon Musk expressed his concerns about electronic voting machines, stating that they should be eliminated due to the risk of being hacked by humans or AI, even if the risk is small.

However, former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar strongly opposed Musk's statement, labeling it as a "huge sweeping generalisation" that lacks accuracy.

Chandrasekhar argued that while Musk's perspective may hold true for the US and other countries where regular computing platforms are used to create "Internet-connected Voting machines," it does not apply to India.

He emphasized that EVMs in India are custom-designed, secure, and isolated from any network or media. Chandrasekhar even offered to provide a tutorial to Musk on the topic.

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