Saturday, December 22, 2018

I would If I could 8: AI for elections

Advantages :


  1. Highest level of transparency against any current election system of any country
  2. Least vulnerable to hacking compared to any current system of any country
  3. The results, source of results scanned ballot papers) are accessible to everyone for further re verification 

Process:

  1. The ballot papers are just fed to a high resolution photocopier (regular DSLR can be used)
  2. These images are then fed to an indigenously developed AI which analyses the image to count the votes for candidates and also removes any duplicates with a hashing algorithm.
  3. All scanned copies should/must/will made publicly available for anyone to verify
The tech can be developed with just a regular phone camera or a cheap DSLR camera. The required AI is already available which is used by many reputed government organizations for research.



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