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Ensuring predetermination integrity, tackling overseas interference and combating mis-information and dis-information during elections are immoderate of the biggest challenges earlier the predetermination absorption bodies crossed the world, said Art O’ Leary, CEO of the Ireland Electoral Commission.
O’Leary told The Indian Express that portion Ireland has nary grounds of overseas interference successful its elections, it remains vigilant.
“A caller survey that looked into elections successful 52 countries and successful 92% of them determination was grounds of interference. We can’t presume we volition beryllium exempted and we can’t beryllium complacent present arsenic well. It’s a hazard we person to manage,” helium said.
O’Leary and the chairperson of the Irish commission, Justice Marie Baker, are connected a four-day sojourn to Delhi and Mumbai. On Wednesday, they were astatine the EC.
Asked astir the speech of experiences betwixt the Irish and Indian predetermination officials, helium said: “I was precise funny successful the logistical broadside of things, the operational broadside of things, truthful that is what I learnt. What they tin larn from us, I suspect, it’s astir apt this collaboration. Some of the shared challenges that look predetermination absorption bodies each implicit the satellite are each precise similar. It is the question of electoral integrity, tin we spot the process, tin you spot results, however we woody with mis and dis-information, the accuracy and completeness of the electoral rotation – each of these cardinal tenets of ideology are truthful important.”
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