SIR: Digital rights researchers demand more transparency for audit of ERONET by civil society

CHENNAI There is a need to open up the electoral roll management (ERONET) software to find what is hindering people’s acceptance in the voters’ list after Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, said digital rights researchers at a webinar on Friday. Speaking at a webinar organised by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on ‘Equal Vote, Unequal Process: SIR and Questions on the role of ECI’, Srinivas Kodali, independent digital rights researcher, said: “I think they made Aadhaar mandatory, kind of, in SIR, they keep saying it is not mandatory, because of the requirements under the Supreme Court judgment.

They officially can’t tell you it is mandatory. But unofficially, it is mandatory.

What you are doing is, whatever the law might say, the software system is not aligned with the law, or with the court’s judgement.