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Bihar’s State Election Commission unveiled a mobile-based AI-driven remote voting system at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 the commission is preparing to scale this model further and may expand it for use in the next Assembly elections.

Details Of Bihar’s mobile-based AI-driven E-voting System

1. What Is E-Voting And How Has It Been Assessed Until Now?

- Bihar has introduced what it describes as India’s first mobile-enabled remote voting system. The platform was initially deployed during the 2025 urban local body elections and later showcased at a governance summit as an example of digital innovation in elections, according to the NDTV report. 

- The voting process operates through a dedicated Android application, “e-Voting SECBHR,” developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in collaboration with the State Election Commission.

- The system is aimed at citizens who struggle to physically access polling booths, including migrant workers living outside their districts, students, senior citizens, pregnant women, persons with disabilities and those who are unwell.

- During the pilot phase, 3,830 mock registrations were completed successfully out of 14,804 attempts. Officials say EPIC-linked verification, encryption safeguards and post-poll decryption controls protect voter authenticity and ballot secrecy. However, cybersecurity experts and groups such as the Internet Freedom Foundation have called for stronger oversight and clearer regulations before expanding the system to Assembly-level elections.

2. How Does It Work?

Voters wishing to cast their ballot remotely need to install the official Android application and verify their login through an OTP sent to their registered mobile number. They must then complete a live selfie check, where AI-driven facial recognition matches their image with the photograph on their EPIC (Electors Photo Identity Card). After successful authentication, they can proceed to vote within the app. The platform was first implemented on June 28 last year during municipal by-elections.

3. How It Will Help Bihar Voters 

- Despite initial challenges, the initiative signalled a move toward more inclusive governance, with Bihar expanding its AI adoption beyond the electoral process into wider public systems.

- Legal-tech startup Dastavez AI, founded by Anmol Bharti and Amrit Bharti, is leveraging artificial intelligence to simplify legal drafting by enabling lawyers, startups and citizens to quickly generate contracts, notices and agreements in clear language, reducing time and errors.

- At the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, Tiger Analytics signed an MoU with the Bihar government to set up a major AI Centre of Excellence with IIT Patna, focusing on skill development, applied research and governance solutions to build a long-term AI ecosystem in the state.

4. How the System Prevents Tampering

- The platform uses blockchain technology to secure ballots, encrypting and anonymising each vote before recording it on a decentralised ledger, making unauthorised alterations extremely difficult.

- Any attempt to modify a vote would require rewriting the entire chain across multiple nodes, which officials say is virtually impossible, while decryption keys remain exclusively with election authorities and are activated only after polling ends.


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