The Supreme Court has said that several local and foreign groups who should not have access to the database of the Elections Commission, had regular access to it.

This was stated as the 16th point in the guideline issued by the court following the annulment of the result of the first round of the presidential election held on 7 September 2013.

The Supreme Court said that this is stated in the expert report obtained by the court, and for that reason, ordered the National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT) and other relevant state institutions to reform and restore confidence in the IT system of the Elections Commission.

President of Elections Commission Fuad Thaufeeg said while speaking on Raajje Miadhu on TVM last night, that the commission’s IT system was previously handled by a restricted group and no one was allowed to access it back then. He said that problems are however being faced since the Supreme Court asked the commission to present certain information and system logs.

“Our server is under attack and the data is being destroyed. We were asked to present a lot of logs and information related to them. Since then, our system is less restricted, our data is under attack. NCIT can’t say that the data is error-free, even we can’t guarantee that,” he said.

Some presidential candidates have refused to sign the final voters’ list, and asked NCIT to confirm in writing that no outsiders have access to the database of the Elections Commission.