The bypolls in four States held earlier this month saw the use of the new ECINET platform that helped in faster uploading of voter turnout trends and publishing of Index Cards within 72 hours of the declaration of election results by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
The Index Card is a non-statutory, post-election statistical reporting format aimed to promote accessibility of election-related data at the constituency level for all stakeholders. It contains data across multiple dimensions such as candidates, electors, votes polled, votes counted, party-wise and candidate-wise vote share, gender-based voting patterns, regional variations, and performance of political parties.
Under the new system, most data fields in the Index Card are auto-filled using ECINET inputs. Before the introduction of ECINET, the publication of Index Cards used to take several days, weeks, or even months as the data was filled and verified manually by the officials, the EC said in a statement.
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Another major achievement during the bypolls was uploading of the voter turnout trends directly by the presiding officers on ECINET as against the earlier manual process. This enabled the quick sharing of information, increased transparency and a significant reduction in time lag in publishing voter turnout trends, the statement said.
