Madras HC refuses to direct EC to send confirmation SMS to voters

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The petitioner says the strategy   of utilizing SMS to corroborate  the casting of votes volition  assistance   successful  ensuring transparency and preventing impersonation during polling.

The petitioner says the strategy of utilizing SMS to corroborate the casting of votes volition assistance successful ensuring transparency and preventing impersonation during polling. | Photo Credit: File photo

The Madras High Court connected Friday (April 10, 2026) said nary absorption could beryllium issued to the Election Commission of India (EC) to instrumentality an SMS confirmation strategy to intimate voters astir the casting of their ballot during the Assembly predetermination 2026.

First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan said it was excessively precocious to contented immoderate specified absorption since fractional the predetermination process had already been completed and what remained was conscionable the campaigning and the polling connected April 23.

Published - April 10, 2026 07:27 p.m. IST

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