IEC rushes to condemn �EVM rigging lesson�

In the two-minute video dubbed ‘Lesson 101 on how to rig an EVM’, a faceless man shows and narrates how chips inside an EVM can be changed to make votes for other candidates go to the one chosen by the manipulator. The presenter using an uncovered machine which does not resemble the ones IEC demonstrated on last year makes 20 votes using examples of BDP, UDC and BCP and the results give more votes to the BCP as it had been planned by the manipulator.

“It has come to the attention of the IEC that there is a video on a gadget assumed to be the type of EVM to be procured by IEC trending on social media. The type of equipment and the associated message relayed is wrong and misleading about the envisaged EVMs,” reads a statement from IEC public relations officer Kabelo Hulela.