US EditionSIR in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee fires 5th letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, flags ‘AI-driven’ digitisation errors this time
Over 1.36 crore voters face notices for data mismatches due to AI-based digitisation errors, causing wrongful exclusions and protests in West Bengal's electoral roll revision.
- On Monday , West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar alleging the Special Intensive Revision used AI transliteration of 2002 rolls, causing serious errors and focusing on deletion rather than inclusion.
- During the digitisation of 2002 rolls, officials scanned and transliterated records using AI tools, causing serious errors in elector particulars like name, age, sex, and relationships that triggered large-scale mismatches.
- More than 58 lakh voters were deleted from draft rolls published on December 16, about 1.36 crore received notices under 'logical discrepancies', and Booth Level Officers protested over workload and reported deaths.
- She warned that lack of documentary acknowledgements leaves electors without proof, depriving them during Special Intensive Revision hearings and exposing gaps in internal record-keeping.
- She alleged the use of BJP IT cell mobile applications in the exercise and said the Trinamool Congress and BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee view the SIR as mechanical and driven by technicalities.
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SIR in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee fires 5th letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, flags ‘AI-driven’ digitisation errors this time
In her fifth letter to the CEC, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expresses deep concern over AI-driven digitisation errors during the SIR of electoral rolls, claiming they undermine democracy.
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