During the announcement of election dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar clarified that EVMs cannot be hacked as they are not connected like pagers that were recently used for bomb blasts in the Middle East. he stated that the difference is that EVMs are not connected like pagers. The clarification from the EC came as Congress recently alleged discrepancies in the electronic voting machines during the counting of votes for the Haryana Assembly elections.