Bihar municipal election: First State using mobile phones for voting, says State Election Commissioner Deepak Prasad

Ahead of the Assembly election in Bihar, voting for the municipal elections is being conducted through mobile for the first time in Bihar on Saturday (June 28, 2025) for six councils in Patna, Rohtas and East Champaran district. The polling started at 7 a.m. 

While voting is being done through EVMs at all the booths, voters, on the other hand, are also casting their votes, by sitting at home, through mobile app. Voting is being done at a total of 489 booths. These voters will decide the fate of 538 candidates.

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Bihar State Election Commissioner Deepak Prasad earlier on Friday (June 27, 2025) had shared the information to media with this regard that for the first time, voters in the municipal elections would be able to cast vote through mobile.

The facilities are available for those people who are unable to go to polling booths to cast their votes. To avail this facility, the voters need to install the app in their android phones. Senior citizens, disabled people and pregnant women can avail this option.

“To avail his facility, the voters have to install the E-SECBHR app and then they have to link the mobile number already added in the voters list. The app has been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),” Mr. Prasad said.

He however, did not mention anything whether this facility would be available during the upcoming Assembly election due in October-November 2025.

One of the biggest fears of e-voting is the possible tampering, however, Mr. Prasad asserted that efforts have been made to maintain transparency and the voting process would be smooth and fair.

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Only two registered voters are allowed to log in using one mobile number and verification of each voter is being done by entering the vote id number. Voters who do have mobile phones can cast by going on the website of Bihar Election Commission using e-voting.

The other security measures put in place are features such as blockchain technology, face matching and scanning to ensure that it cannot be tampered.

Till last evening, around 10,000 voters have registered for mobile voting and around 50,000 voters are expected to cast their votes using websites.