New system for quicker voting trends soon: EC
New Delhi, June 4 -- Facing allegations of fudged voter turnout figures, the Election Commission on Tuesday said it is introducing a technology-driven system to provide timely updates on approximate voting percentage data which "significantly" reduces the time lag associated with the present method.
The EC said that the present manual method would lead to delays creating "misperceptions". The EC's announcement comes months before Bihar goes to polls later this year.
Under the initiative, the presiding officer (PRO) of each polling station will now directly enter voter turnout on the new ECINET application every two hours on polling day to reduce the time lag in the updation of polling trends. HTC...
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