PATNA, Nov. 19 -- RJD leader and former party state president Jagdanand Singh's allegation that each EVM contained '25,000 pre-loaded votes' leading to the party's drubbing has drawn a strong rebuttal from the Election Commission of India (ECI), which called the charges 'technically impossible, procedurally false' and contradicted by statutory records signed by RJD's own election and polling agents. The ECI on Tuesday in a statement said EVMs had no WiFi, bluetooth, internet or any external connectivity, making remote or digital tampering impossible. Before polling, each EVM displays '0' votes for every candidate, and a mandatory mock poll is conducted in the presence of all political party agents, after which all mock votes are cleared and a mock poll certificate is jointly signed. On Monday, the RJD, which won only 25 of the 143 seats it contested in the assembly polls, had claimed this mandate did not reflect people's desire and the party might move court as there were "irregularities in the EVMs". "Each EVM had 25,000 votes even before the polling began... and we still managed to win 25 seats. It is a matter of good fortune for us. Had anyone imagined that RJD be in such a situation.....Democracy is not business and there should not be jugglery with the Constitution. We don't know where the country is heading to," Singh had said after a meeting of the party leaders at the official residence of Tejashwi Yadav. Yadav was elected leader of the party's legislature party . Incidentally, Singh on Tuesday while reacting to ECI's rebuttal, claimed the central poll panel had said such things previously too. "The ECI has stressed that EVMs cannot be tampered with on earlier occasions too. One can find certain discrepancies in the arithmetic of votes polled for BJP and other allies in each seat ..," the RJD veteran said. Meanwhile, the ECI in its statement further said that additionally, EVMs undergo two layers of randomisation -- first at the district level for allocation to assembly segments, and second at the constituency level for allotment to individual polling stations in the presence of all political parties and their representatives, ensuring that no one can predict which EVM will go to which booth. Political agents remain present during EVM randomisation, sealing, dispatch, polling, and storage, and strong rooms are sealed and signatures of all party representatives are taken. No broken seal, anomaly, or objection was ever reported by RJD at any stage. Further, every EVM is paired with a VVPAT unit, allowing visible verification of each vote, the statement said. Random VVPAT counting in every constituency acts as a statistical audit, and no mismatch was reported between EVM and VVPAT anywhere, it said. "Therefore, no credible evidence has been presented by Singh. On the contrary, RJD's own agents signed the mock poll certificates, Form 17C (account of votes recorded), and sealing documents without recording a single objection, fully contradicting the claim now being made," it added....