An AI-Powered VVPAT Counter for Elections in India
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An automated counter powered by image processing and machine learning algorithms is proposed to speed up the process and address the bottleneck in physical verification of the VVPATs against the party level counts from the EVMs.
Abstract
The Election Commission of India has introduced Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail since 2019. This mechanism has increased voter confidence at the time of casting the votes. However, physical verification of the VVPATs against the party level counts from the EVMs is done only in 5 (randomly selected) machines per constituency. The time required to conduct physical verification becomes a bottleneck in scaling this activity for 100% of machines in all constituencies. We proposed an automated counter powered by image processing and machine learning algorithms to speed up the process and address this issue.
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