Opposition in Türkiye using AI to count votes in presidential elections

Türkiye’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology into the polling system to get results faster during the second round of the presidential election, according to a source in the CHP, Report informs referring to TASS.

“We have updated the architecture of our system with next-generation technologies to improve security and data transfer speed. We have also updated our voting results tracking system to integrate artificial intelligence technologies into it for instant analysis of voting results,” the source said. “In order to ensure the security of the system, it is currently impractical to disclose all the technical details. However, all our citizens can be calm about the electoral system of the Republican People’s Party.”

According to the source, all the measures taken are necessary ‘to ensure the security of the elections.’ “Therefore, we expect our citizens to confidently come to the polling stations and vote,” he added.

In Türkiye’s presidential and parliamentary elections, the Supreme Election Council counts the votes and the results are announced by authorized state media, as a rule, Anadolu Agency and the TRT TV channel. However, political parties have the right to receive the results of votes from each polling station from their representatives.