Unlike technology-based financial transaction systems which evolved over years to handle phishing attacks, MITM and credit card based fraud, unlike financial transactions, the elections are held relatively infrequently and hence does not provide much opportunity to evolve and learn the adversaries. Given how Indian govt deals with technology, this is not something new but what is intriguing is the fact that when researchers demonstrated that EVMs are not secure, rather than awarding the whistleblowers, ECI arrested Hari Prasad[the only Indian national in the group], blatantly denied that EVM can be compromised and used all sorts of harassments to pressurize him to reveal the “source” which provided the EVM.