Mumbai poll official refutes news on mobile phoneEVM link calls it false

No one-time password is needed to unlock an Electronic Voting Machine, PTI quoted the returning officer of the MumbaiMumbaiMumbai North-West Lok Sabha constituency as saying on Sunday.

The official was responding to a newspaper report claiming that the brother-in-law of Ravindra Waikar, the newly-elected MP from the constituency, had taken a phone to the vote counting centre on June 4 that was “used for generating the OTP [one-time password] that unlocked the EVM machine”.

“The EVM is a standalone system and there is no need for an OTP [one-time password] to unlock it,” PTI quoted Vandana Suryavanshi, the returning officer, as saying at a press conference. “It is not programmable and has no wireless communication capabilities.”