Social Media Ideas for Optical Character Recognition-Voter Attendance

Melaka election to see wider use of OCR‑VA system, Election Commission confident after MCMC tests

ALOR GAJAH, Oct 18 — The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the Election Commission (EC...

After Row, EC Caps Form 7 Voter Deletion Applications At 10

The directive reinforces verification and procedural safeguards before names are deleted from electoral rolls.

Visual Document Retrieval – EVIE-8B, No OCR Needed

Visual document retrieval has always leaned on OCR. First, extract the text. Then, run retrieval on that text. This works fine for a clean invoice or a simple contract. But once a...

Delhi SIR: Public audit in two booths finds over 100 voters wrongly marked absent, shifted, or dead

Voters residing at the same address for multiple decades express anger that they were marked ‘untraceable’, ‘absent’, and permanently shifted, and their only option is to enrol afr...

Forms Shortage Hits Voter Roll Corrections

BLOs report Forms 6, 7 and 8 unavailable despite ECI guidelines; deadline looms

EC Orders Drive To Restore Left-Out Voters

BLOs to cross-check pre-SIR rolls, conduct house-to-house verification: Reports

'It's a crime': UP CEO on alteration of 10,470 Pilbhit voters after SIR final roll

Uttar Pradesh's chief electoral officer revealed that two electoral officials and a computer operator have been implicated in voter record manipulation. A total of 10,470 voter rec...

50,000 Forms Filed Seeking Deletion of Votes

Election Commission of India allows booth-level agents (BLAs) of political parties to file claims and objections (Form 7) against names featured in the draft electoral roll.

Security Vulnerability in a Voting System

It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I wa...

Political Leaders Expect SIR Anomalies to Decline After Corrections

Adilabad collector Rajarshi Shah said Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) were conducting field-level checks for no mapping...

No SoPs shared regarding auto-generated Form 7s with State Electoral Officers

While thousands of names have been deleted from electoral rolls using auto-generated Form 7s digitally signed by Electoral Registration Officers, no written communication or Standa...

West Graduates’ Constituency: Counting staff told to ensure transparency

Returning Officer for the Karnataka Legislative Council West Graduates’ Constituency election K.M. Janaki has urged vote-counting supervisors and assistants to ensure transparency...

Bayesian OCR

The Greek letter β (beta) and the German letter ß (eszett) look similar, especially in some fonts. Now suppose an OCR program sees some character that could be a beta or could be a...

SIR: Pre-filled Form-7 applications against Muslim voters in Kodagu came from ‘party office’, say objectors

Across multiple Assembly constituencies in Karnataka, pre-filled Form-7 applications were filed in bulk seeking deletion of Muslim voters’ names

国民民主、代表選の投票用紙未達を検証　2人で約5万人の名簿管理

‘Several duplicate voters still on draft rolls’

Furnish complete anomaly and ASDD lists to parties

Amid anti-SIR protests, ECI orders annual SSR to enrol voters in 14 States, 3 UTs

SSR seeks to enrol new voters and update electoral rolls; applicants do not need to submit documents to prove citizenship or be mapped with earlier electoral rolls when enrolling t...

SIR: Special camps on October 15, 16 to help enrol omitted voters in Telangana

First-time electors can also apply for enrolment through Form-6; though the claims and objections period has ended, enrolment will remain open until November 7

SIR exercise: Nine lakh names dropped from Uttarakhand’s poll roll; State now has 71.59 lakh voters

The State will now begin a special drive to enrol missing and eligible voters, following the nearly 10% decline in the electoral roll, with a large number of voters placed in the ‘...

Camps for Voter Enrolment to Begin Today, Deleted Voters Remain

The special camps are intended to facilitate applications for inclusion in the final electoral rolls, even as concerns remain over the declaration required from previously register...

Maharashtra CEO Seeks Changes to Form 6

The Maharashtra CEO’s letter seeks to remove the words “new voters” from the form’s title and introduce an alternative declaration for applicants who were previously enrolled in an...

Special Voter Enrolment Camps Draw Poor Response

The two day special voter enrolment camps ended on Friday with a lukewarm response in the city: Reports

Unconstitutional SIR must be stopped, all illegitimately deleted voters must be restored: Congress

Jairam Ramesh shared the screenshot of a media report which claimed that at least 100 voters from two polling booths in Delhi’s Okhla constituency were found to have been wrongly c...

EC announces Special Summary Revision of voters' list in 17 states amid SIR row

While a Summary Revision focuses on new eligibles and routine corrections, SIR goes far deeper, involving statewide house-to-house verification, detailed scrutiny of entries, and l...