New Delhi: In a significant step toward strengthening the accuracy and transparency of India’s electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is preparing to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to identify duplicate voters during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Sources said on Friday that the advanced system will be used in the second phase of the nationwide exercise, which is currently underway in nine states and three Union Territories.

According to senior officials familiar with the matter, the AI module will utilise facial recognition technology to detect voters who may have been enrolled more than once using the same photograph.

By comparing faces across the massive electoral database, the software will flag potential cases of duplica

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