CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution Telangana has developed the country’s first Smartphone-based eVoting solution. The solution leverages emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain (Distributed Ledger) technology.

Detailed explanation-2: -The EVMs were used first time in the general election (entire state) to the assembly of Goa in 1999. In 2003, all by-elections and state elections were held using EVMs, encouraged by this election commission decided to use only EVMs for Lok Sabha elections in 2004.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘TSEC eVote’ Android app is a security hardened mobile application to prevent tampering and binds a device ID and phone number to a specific citizen registration process so that only the same device can be used during voting, thus enhancing security.

Detailed explanation-4: -Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone electronic voting machines (also called EVM) or computers connected to the Internet (online voting).