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Who controls access to voter records? ECINet audit raises fresh questions
An audit of ECINet reports Bengal-specific restrictions and controls that can switch access on or off across States, renewing questions about electoral officers’ authority, central oversight and accountability after earlier objections to the platform and changes to voter registration procedures
When the State conspires against its Citizens
It does not do so openly and publicly, for it will then be immediately held to account by the people. It has to do so in a furtive clandestine manner.
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