Election Commission’s officers’ portal could hide voter-roll tools from West Bengal officials, audit finds
Civic-tech group Charcharam conducted an audit of ECINET, the Election Commission of India's portal for election officials, and discovered code restricting Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant EROs in West Bengal from accessing two voter-roll management tools. This exclusion appears to be hard-coded for West Bengal only and was still present as of October 19. The restricted tools are for viewing enumeration form details including voter IDs, names, documents and booth-level officer recommendations. Under Section 13B of the Representation of the People Act, these officers have statutory responsibility for preparing and revising electoral rolls. The ECI previously stated field o
Key points
- ECINET restricts two voter-roll tools for West Bengal EROs/AEROs only.
- Exclusion hard-coded in codebase as of October 19; found in audit of October 2-9.
- Restriction may hinder officers' statutory electoral roll duties under RP Act Section 13B.
- No similar exclusion found for any other state.
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