Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge urges EC to facilitate court-monitored EVM hackathon

Karnataka’s IT/BT minister Priyank Kharge on Monday urged the Election Commission to facilitate a court-monitored ethical hackathon and a rigorous technical audit of electronic voting machines (EVMs), offering the help of the state’s robust tech ecosystem as he joined All India Congress Committee (AICC) leader Rahul Gandhi’s campaign for disclosure of poll-related data of recent elections.

Kharge, in a post on X, said he had, in December last year, proposed a court-monitored ethical hackathon, a rigorous technical audit of EVMs involving premier…