The ECI used an untested software running on dubious algorithms and unreliable data from two decades ago to brand existing voters as suspicious. In just two of the 12 states we investigated we found 3.66 crore voters had been red flagged. That accounts for a quarter of the two states’ combined voting population. Officers on the ground had not been given written instructions on how to deal with such a humungous number of suspicious cases thrown up by a software being run from ECI’s headquarters.
In our previous investigation into the SIR we had exposed the ECI’s use of two softwares days after it told the Supreme Court it doesn’t rely on computers to detect duplicates and frauds. In this investigation we reveal how the use of one of these softwares led to unprecedented chaos, anxiety for crores of voters across the states and eventually yet another U-turn by the ECI in the middle of the voter reregistration process. Read our latest investigation on SIR here:
How ECI’s dubious software branded 3.66 crore voters in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh as suspects
The Reporter’s Collective has been exposing the lacunae in the SIR and how its impacting voters across the country. Our stories under the Electoral Roll Project have highlighted how SIR is being poorly implemented, and many of these investigations have been presented as evidence before the Supreme Court.
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