In his complaint filed Nov. 20, Ayyadurai claims Secretary of State William Galvin ordered electronic voting machines to delete ballot images after votes were counted. Ayyadurai, who is representing himself, was seeking an injunction that would have blocked the certification of the Republican Senate primary and the general election Senate race that was won by incumbent Ed Markey, a Democrat. "Chain of custody has been broken, no transparent audit of the ballot images used for tabulating the vote count is possible and the declared numbers are unreliable," Ayyadurai wrote in his complaint. "Only a hand-count of paper ballots submitted in both the primary and the Senate races can restore the credibility of the vote count." The election results were certified and approved by the Governor's Council Wednesday afternoon.>