Overview
- The Election Commission told reporters on Thursday that ECINet is a decentralised portal where only designated field officers can perform statutory actions on electoral rolls.
- Officials said booth-level officers, assistant electoral registration officers, electoral registration officers, district election officers and chief electoral officers log in with unique IDs and passwords to register, correct or delete entries.
- ERONET has been folded into ECINet as the Electoral Roll module so roll management and voter services now run through a single integrated platform.
- The EC said it provides centralised cybersecurity for ECINet and pointed to roughly 68 lakh malicious attempts on a past counting day as the reason for that protection.
- Questions remain after two Election Commissioners raised concerns about increasing central control and reports from Goa that software lacked a rollback option, which left 97 voters identified as eligible unable to be restored and has prompted calls for technical fixes and clearer access audits.