The Telangana State Election Commission has planned to conduct a dry run of a “Mobile-Based e-voting system”.

Highlights

• The development of this system is guided by the necessity of holding polls in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
• This system, if successful, will facilitate to vote using smartphones from home.
• The dry run will be held in Khammam district of Telangana on October 20.
• It will be India’s first smartphone-based e-voting process.

Registration procedure

Voters can register themselves for the dry run, using the smartphone application in between October 8 and 18.

Implementing Agency

The state election commission of Telangana is implementing the system in association with the emerging technologies wing of IT Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) department of Telangana government and technical development by ‘Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)’.