Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Wednesday said that a new “tamper-detect” M3 electronic voting machine (EVM) will be used in the 2019 lok Sabha elections. It will stop functioning if someone tries to tinker with it, he pointed out.
Zaidi, who demitted office on Wednesday, said the M3 EVM production is starting from August at the Electronics Corporation of India ltd (ECIl) and Bharat Electronics lt (BEl) plants.
These machines will replace the existing machines in phases. By September next year, the required number of machines will be produced.