Overview
- Election Commission officials say an AI-based system will be used during the Special Intensive Revision of West Bengal’s electoral rolls to flag fake or deceased entries.
- The tool is described as analyzing facial similarities across voter photographs to identify people registered at multiple addresses.
- TMC MP Saket Gokhale says no public information exists on the app’s developer, vendor, code or testing, calling the system “mysterious.”
- He seeks proof of auditing for algorithmic bias and questions why AI is needed for duplicate detection that he argues simpler software can handle.
- Gokhale cites Mamata Banerjee’s letter flagging the hiring of 1,000 data-entry operators and 50 software developers, recalls a 2019 vendor controversy involving alleged BJP links, and says the SIR is proceeding without transparency.