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Election Commission using digital system to monitor Internet for code violations

Election Commission using digital system to monitor Internet for code violations

By Press Trust of India | Updated: 21 October 2013 19:13 IST

The Election Commission (EC) is using a special digital system to monitor the Internet for possible violations of Model Code of Conduct ahead of next month's Assembly elections.

Chief Electoral Officer of Madhya Pradesh Jaideep Govind Monday said that the Commission is using 'Textual Information Extraction and Retrieval System' for this purpose.

Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is operating the system.

It searches for keywords and extracts the Internet data from mass media sources and Twitter so that it can checked for violation of the Model Code.

Govind said until now, "Despite our best efforts, the misuse of the media has often gone unnoticed."

"The monitoring will also be extended to cover twitter as its popularity has been dynamically increasing across political circles. We hope that this will help us further in conducting free and fair elections in Madhya Pradesh," the CEO said.

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