VeTA is an independent national level Citizens’ Forum for promoting Verifiability, Transparency and Accountability in Indian Elections. The Forum is a civil society initiative involving some of the best known computer experts, political scientists, public activists, administrators, academicians, legal professionals etc.

The following are the key resource persons of VeTA.

GVL Narasimha Rao is President of VeTA. He is a well known political and election analyst in the country. He is the author of the book titled “Democracy at Risk! Can we trust our electronic voting machines?” This is the first ever book on Indian EVMs and deals comprehensively with all technical, legal, procedural and political aspects of Indian EVMs. He can be contacted at nrao@indianevm.com

Hari Prasad is the Technical Coordinator of VeTA is managing director of technologies firm NetIndia Private limited based in Hyderabad. He is in the key technical person who has exposed vulnerabilities of the electronic voting machines in India. Hari can be contacted at hari@indianevm.com

V.V. Rao is the National Coordinator of VeTA. Rao is the main petitioner in the public interest litigation filed in the Supreme Court on EVMs. Rao is an avid election watch specialist. Rao can be contacted at coordinator@indianevm.com

Besides the above full time resource persons, VeTA is supported by a large team of highly eminent individuals from the civil society representing technologists, administrators, activists, academicians, lawyers and other eminent citizens.

You can write to us at veta@indianevm.com