The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday said it had introduced a new tech-driven system to provide faster, real-time updates on voter turnout, addressing concerns raised by Opposition parties about discrepancies in turnout data. This system will be implemented before the Bihar Assembly election later this year.
Under this initiative, presiding officers at each polling station will enter turnout figures every two hours directly into the ECINET app on polling day to reduce the time lag in updating the approximate polling trends. This will be automatically aggregated at the constituency level.
“This new process significantly reduces the time lag associated with the earlier manual reporting methods,” the commission said.
ReplyDeletePreviously, voter turnout data were collected manually by sector officers and relayed to returning officers through phone calls, SMS, or messaging apps. This information was aggregated every two hours and uploaded on the voter turnout app. The polling percentage trends were often updated with a delay of four to five hours due to physical records arriving late at night or even the following day.
The approximate voting percentage trends will continue to be published every two hours as before, but notably, the turnout data will now be entered into ECINET by the presiding officers immediately after the close of polls and before they leave the polling station, which will reduce the delays and ensure that the approximate percentage of votes polled will be available on the updated Voter Turnout app constituency-wise after the close of polls subject to network connectivity.
ReplyDeleteWhere mobile networks are unavailable, entries can be made offline and synced once connectivity is restored.
ReplyDeleteThis updated Voter Turnout app will become an integral part of ECINET
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