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AI DIGITISATION OF VOTER ROLLS LED TO MISMATCHES: MAMATA TO CEC
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|January 13, 2026
Digitisation of the 2002 SIR database using AI tools has resulted in large-scale mismatches, with several genuine voters categorised as “logical discrepancies”, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar ina letter on Monday.
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“In the absence of any digitised database of the last SIR, the manual voters list of 2002 - including those published in vernacular scripts - was scanned and translated into English using Al tools for digitisation. During this
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AI DIGITISATION OF VOTER ROLLS LED TO MISMATCHES: MAMATA TO CEC
Digitisation of the 2002 SIR database using AI tools has resulted in large-scale mismatches, with several genuine voters categorised as “logical discrepancies”, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar ina letter on Monday.
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January 13, 2026
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