According to an NDTV report, the AAP decided to skip the EC’s challenge on Saturday, as they felt that the rules were too restrictive.

On 24 May, the AAP had urged the EC to consider allowing the parties participating in the hackathon to be allowed to tamper with the motherboards of the EVMs. The EC however, turned down this demand.

In a letter to AAP, the EC had said:

“... allowing any change of the motherboard or any internal circuit etc of the EVM is like saying that anyone should be permitted to manufacture a new machine and introduce newly made EVMs in ECI system, which is implausible and irrational... any 'look-alike' machine is just a different gadget, which is manifestly designed and made to function in a 'tampered' manner and has no relevance, incidence or bearing on the Commission's EVMs.”

The EC had thrown an open challenge to all the political parties, inviting them to participate in the challenge to test the susceptibility of the EVMs to hacking. The EVM hackathon will take place on Saturday.