NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is planning to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to identify duplicate voters as part of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the second phase of the exercise, sources said on Friday.

According to them the AI tools will be used for facial recognition to detect voters with duplicate photographs. “The AI-based software, through the face recognition feature, will identify the voters and de-duplicate them,” a source said.

According to the sources, the second phase of the SIR process, including enumeration form (EF) distribution, collection and digitisation, is expected to be completed by 25-26 November, ahead of the publication of the draft roll. They said that the AI system would also help trace cases where the same photograph has been used to enroll multiple voters.