Election Commission to develop new digital interface for voters, other stakeholders

The Election Commission’s new initiative comes amid allegations made by Opposition parties about voter roll manipulations, duplication of elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs), as well as abnormalities in updating voter turnout data. File
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday (May 4, 2025) announced that it was developing a new, user-friendly digital interface for voters and other stakeholders such as election officials, political parties and the civil society.

The new one-stop platform, ECINET, will integrate and reorient over 40 of the EC’s existing mobile and web applications. It will subsume existing apps, such as the Voter Helpline app, Voter Turnout app, cVIGIL, Suvidha 2.0, ESMS, Saksham and the KYC app, which together had clocked over 5.5 crore downloads.

The EC’s new initiative comes amid allegations made by Opposition parties about voter roll manipulations, duplication of elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs), as well as abnormalities in updating voter turnout data.

The ECINET will have an aesthetic user interface (UI) and a simplified user experience (UX) by providing a singular platform for all election-related activities. This move is also designed to alleviate the burden of users, who currently have to download and navigate multiple apps and remember different login details, the poll body said in a statement.

It has already reached an advanced stage of development and rigorous trials are being conducted to ensure smooth functionality, ease of use, and robust cybersecurity measures. It is being developed after an elaborate consultative exercise involving 36 Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of all the States and Union Territories, 767 District Election Officers (DEOs) and 4,123 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) of their States and UTs and after reviewing 76 publications comprising 9,000 pages of the electoral framework, instructions and handbooks issued by the EC from time to time.

The new digital interface will enable users to access relevant electoral data on their desktops and smartphones. To ensure that data are as accurate as possible, ECINET data will be entered solely by authorised EC officials. However, in case of any conflict, the primary data as duly filled in statutory forms will prevail.

The platform was proposed by the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during a recent conference of CEOs, EC sources said.

The new initiative is expected to benefit nearly 100 crore electors and the entire electoral machinery comprising over 10.5 lakh Booth Level Officers, around 15 lakh Booth Level Agents appointed by political parties, nearly 45 lakh polling officials, 15,597 Assistant EROs, 4,123 EROs and 767 DEOs across the country.