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New Delhi: There were implicit 68 lakh malicious hits, some from wrong India and overseas, connected the Election Commission’s online platforms, including the results portal, connected counting time for the just-concluded assembly polls.
However, EC officials connected Wednesday said each specified hits were successfully countered with robust cybersecurity protocols.EC further informed that the ECINET level — which subsumed implicit 40 antithetic EC applications and portals dealing with abstracted poll-related functions — recorded an mean 3 crore hits per infinitesimal connected counting time (May 4) and a full 98.3 crore hits connected the canvass days (April 9, 23 and 29).Since its authoritative motorboat of ECINET successful January 2026, the integrated app has witnessed a important surge successful usage and recorded 10 crore downloads till date.
The beta mentation of ECINET was utilized successful Bihar elections successful November 2025.Commission officials connected Wednesday said ECINET played a cardinal relation successful streamlining predetermination processes including real-time monitoring, enabling faster reporting, and enhancing transparency during the caller polls to 5 states/UTs and bypolls.On counting day, implicit 3.2 lakh QR codes were generated to guarantee that lone authorised unit could entree counting venues, thereby preventing immoderate unauthorised introduction to the counting centres.
The caller QR code–based photograph individuality paper strategy was utilized for the archetypal clip connected counting time crossed each 5 states/UTs done ECINET, successful a important measurement towards enhancing information astatine the counting centres. This strategy volition present beryllium a modular for each aboriginal elections to the Lok Sabha and state/UT assemblies.
