Hyderabad: The country’s first smartphone-based e-voting solution has been developed by the Telangana government and dry running will be held soon in Khammam District.
This software helps some voters, including senior citizens, people with disabilities, those employed in important services that are notified, polling personnel, and patients who cannot physically choose.
Technical support for this project is provided by the Advanced Computing Development Center (CDAC).
Development has also been guided by the expert committee consisting of Professor Rajat Moona, Director of IIT-BHilai and technical advisors for the General Election Commission, and Professors from IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi.
“The solution has been developed and tested.
The dry run in the form of dummy elections will be carried out in Khammam Regency by registration on open applications from 8 to 18 October, and Dummy voting will be held on October 20.
Although the initial scope is limited to the subset of citizens , Dry Run is open to all district citizens, “the official statement of the IT department.
This initiative was taken by the Telutana State Election Commission that partnered with the Wing Technologies emerged the IT department.
Officials said solutions to utilize artificial intelligence for the authentication of three selector stages.
This includes a name that is matched with Aadhaar, individual combined detection (to make bots out), and match image with an epic database (with records originating from 15 to 20 years).
Blockchain (Distributed Ledger) technology has also been used to secure identified and encrypted sounds so that they are maintained as a lasting record.
The smartphone application follows a minimalist design approach and supports English and Telugu, and also has detailed assistance parts with video tutorials and helpline numbers to help citizens.
The Android ‘E-Vote Tsec’ application is a security application that is hardened to prevent interference and also bind the device ID and telephone number to the process of registration of certain citizens so that only the same device can be used during voting.
The Main Secretary, IT Department, Jayesh Ranjan said: “Artificial intelligence and blockchain are two of the most flexible technologies that have empowered many of our Govtech projects.
We are happy to have supported TSEC in the initiative to build e-voting solutions for our citizens, and especially them Which might face a challenge with a physical vote with or without a covid-19 pandemic.
“He said.