The process of revising the electoral roll, known as Special Intensive Revision (SIR), has been taking place in states and territories across India, justified by the Narendra Modi government as a way to stop “infiltrators” – a pejorative term largely referring to illegal Muslim Bangladeshi immigrants – from voting. a new AI-assisted algorithm in West Bengal to flag so-called “logical discrepancies” in voter data, which led to millions of Bengalis having to prove their citizenship – including Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen – with many ending up on the list of 2.7 million deleted voters.Experts say the algorithm failed to take into account key cultural issues, including that there is no standard form of transcribing Bengali names into English script, and that Bengali surnames have been adapted over generations, leading to small spelling inconsistencies between family documents. It also flagged parents under 16 and more than five siblings as a “logical discrepancy” even though both were common in older generations.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/india-west-bengal-state-elections-millions-stripped-of-vote
Republicans are going to take note of this to steal 2026.
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