TS develops smartphone based e-voting solution

Dry run to be conducted in Khammam district

A dry run of the country’s first smartphone-based e-voting solution developed in Telangana is to be conducted later this month in Khammam district.

An initiative involving Telangana State Election Commission, Emerging Technologies Wing of the State IT Department and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, it followed the Commission mooting e-voting facility for certain sections of voters. The list comprised persons with disabilities (PWD), senior citizens, those employed in notified essential services, polling personnel, IT professionals as well as those sick.

While the Emerging Technologies Wing provided implementation support, technical development was undertaken by CDAC. The technical development was also guided by an expert committee comprising Director of IIT Bhilai and Technical advisor to ECI Rajat Moona and IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi professors, a release from IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao’s office said.