Telangana e-voting solution has been successfully developed and tested. (Representative)
Hyderabad:
Telangana on Wednesday said it has developed the country’s first smartphone-based e-voting solution in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that has pushed the world to all-digital operations.
The solution has been successfully developed and tested, while a dry run in the form of a dummy election, is being conducted in Khammam district, with registration on open application from October 8-18 and dummy voting on October 20, An official release said. Though the initial scope was limited to a subset of citizens, the dry run is open to all citizens of the district, the release said.
The initiative is spearheaded by the Telangana State Election Commission (TSEC) with the implementation support of the Emerging Technologies Wing of the State IT Department and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).
The technical development has also been guided by an expert committee, which includes Professor Rajat Moona, Director, IIT Bhilai and Technical Advisor to the Election Commission of India, and Professors from IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, the release said.
The initiative has originated from the State Election Commission’s scheme to provide ‘e-voting’ facility to certain sections of voters such as Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), senior citizens, citizens employed in notified essential services, sick people, polling personnel and IT professionals. has been enabled. , among others.
The solution leverages emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain (Distributed Ledger) technology.
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