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In recent years, electoral processes, results and integrity of the results have been the focus of heated discussions. Alongside this, there have been continuous collaborative efforts to determine the security of the technology along with impact on rights, privacy and data governance. The various reports around the prototyping of blockchain based technology to be used for elections in India provide a perfect opportunity to examine the topic and acquire sufficient insights.
Many countries are exploring and experimenting a set of different approaches to enable more streamlined voting that is secure, efficient and auditable. As part of the conference, we will discuss some of the following topics:
A topic of this nature is designed to appeal to the widest cross section of the audience, including:
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Usha R
Submitted Dec 21, 2021
Data and databases can be considered a ‘community resource’. The job of the election commission is not just to conduct periodic elections, but also to keep it free and fair. If the secret ballot is no longer secret, or if people even feel it is not secret and safe, it is no longer free or fair. Importantly, when these institutions of state allow themselves to be hijacked for purposes other than that for which they have been set up - like the RGI did with the Census and the NPR - then they are not just going way beyond the statute that set them up; but they are morphing into something else. A 2012 policy on data sharing says that the data about people that any department holds becomes its `property’. This is appropriation of that which is not theirs. This is where the ECI is headed.
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