NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party AAP ) on Friday asked the Election Commission EC ) "with folded hands" that it allow an "open hackathon" of electronic voting machines (EVMs)."No engineers can hack a machine with just the magic of their eyes," said AAP leader Gopal Rai . "Why is the Election Commission so afraid to hand over its EVMs?" Rai asked.Last week, the EC announced it will hold a hacking challenge from June 3 to prove that its EVMs can't be tampered with or hacked. But it also announced a set of rules associated with the challenge. One of those rules was that hackers won't be allowed to tamper with or change the EVMs' motherboards.Yesterday, the EC denied AAP's request that it be allowed to tamper with EVMs' motherboards. It said such tampering would change the circuitry of the motherboards which in turn would essentially change the character of the EVMs.That explanation doesn't cut it for AAP, which believes that hackers' inability to tamper with EVMs would show the EC in good light, which is why the EC should allow "open" hacking."If no one succeeds in hacking the machines, the country's faith in EVMs will increase, democracy will also be strenghtened," said Rai.He further said AAP, too, should have been afraid it wouldn't be able to hack EVMs when it said it would so in the Delhi Assembly. "We were successful but if we had not been, questions would have been asked of us too," he said.