System can't be honest when you win & rigged when you lose: 124 ex-bureaucrats in EC's defence. A group of 124 ex-IAS and IFS officers, in an open letter defending EC amid Opposition's protest, said that allegations of electoral fraud must be supported by credible evidence. "A system cannot be honest when you win and rigged when you lose," it read. "We write because one word, 'rigged', is now thrown at our elections without evidence,".