Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer S Chockalingam has sought changes to the Election Commission's ECINet software to allow Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to exercise greater discretion while dealing with anomalies in electoral rolls, with the request subsequently accepted by the poll panel, according to PTI.
Chockalingam made the request in a letter to the Election Commission on September 24, seeking changes to the centralised system through which notices are generated during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, PTI reported, citing an official in the state poll body. The official said the state had requested that EROs be allowed to take decisions on notices relating to discrepancies instead of the process being determined entirely through the software.
