digital election system can be tested – The President

President Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed his intention to implement recommendations from the commission report, led by former Chief Justice Priyasad Depp on digitizing Sri Lanka’s election system.

Speaking at an IT professionals’ meeting yesterday at Waters Edge Hotel in Battaramulla, the President indicated that the new digital election system might be piloted, in the upcoming local government elections.

Responding to a question raised on the possibility to digitize the electoral system, he said, the digital election system can be introduced at the national level, by first conducting an experiment during the local government elections. The meeting, themed “Coding the Nation’s Future,” featured a notable welcome by a robot named “Pepper,” developed using Artificial Intelligence.