Omar Abdullah tweets on "trustworthiness of voting machines"

After some electronic voting machines or EVMs malfunctioned in Surat in the Gujarat assembly election 2017, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted that "I've been extremely sceptical of EVM related conspiracy theories but I'm being to question my unwavering faith in the machines & their infallibility."

I hope the Election Commission can step up & address the questions that are being asked of it about the trustworthiness of voting machines.

- Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 9, 2017

He said, "I hope the Election Commission can step up & address the questions that are being asked of it about the trustworthiness of voting machines." The Election Commission today said the faulty EVMs have been replaced. 4,397 EVMs have been deployed in Surat's 16 seats (12 in urban and four in rural) in the Gujarat assembly election 2017.