Vengeful winner can use EVMs to hit back

MUMBAI: Call it the revenge of the vindictive winner. Electronic voting machines offer a victorious candidate the distinct possibility of making life miserable for localities that haven’t voted for him or her.
If a locality ends up with a vengeful Lok Sabha MP, he might neglect or, worse, target the area that didn’t vote for him.
To know the score, all the candidate has to do is to call his polling agent and ask him to check the serial numbers and address tags on the EVMs at the time of counting.
It will now be possible for a candidate to find out how many votes he polled at a particular booth.