Overview
- Election Commission officials said Wednesday that ECINET blocked over 68 lakh malicious hits on Monday, May 4, targeting key systems including the results portal without disrupting counting.
- Traffic peaked at an average of about 3 crore hits per minute on May 4, after the platform recorded more than 98.3 crore hits across the April 9, 23, and 29 polling days.
- The commission said the hostile traffic came from inside India and from overseas and included denial‑of‑service waves and bot‑driven attempts to flood its sites.
- A new QR code photo ID checked entry to counting centers for the first time, generating over 3.2 lakh codes to restrict access to authorized staff only, which tightened on‑site security.
- ECINET consolidates more than 40 election apps, launched in January 2026 after a Bihar beta in November 2025, and has reached about 10 crore downloads, signaling a shift to standardized digital controls in future polls.