More than 20-25 % of eligible Indian citizen are not able to vote during either State or Central elections. The reasons are obvious: They are far from their hometown (constituency) due to:
1. Education (Engineering, Medical, Higher Studies etc.) Even in IITK, with 450 students in one batch, hardly- 40-45 students are from kanpur, and 150-200 are from UP. If I take parallel for every colleges, more than 50 % of students in any technical colleges have students who have right to vote, but they can not go to hometown for voting.
As per a survey, 30-40% of students studying at Bangalore are from BIHAR.
2. Jobs. Only Bangalore has 60-65 % population of software engineers who are not residents of Bangalore, so they don't have right to vote at Bangalore. Similar are the cases at Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi/NCR and other metro's.
3. Our NRI friends. They can not cast their vote sitting in their home @ other countries.
So, a voting % of 50-60 % in any elections are obvious. In this light, I proposed at many forums that can we have an E-voting system?, with the permission and acceptance of Election Commission of India. I am sure, if 4-5 IT companies do a consortium on making such a system, it is possible. (A group patent can be filed.. to protect it getting copied from outer world.)
We can do this as a part of CSR with some assistance from Government. I am sure, by implementing the same, we can achieve the voting % of 75-80%, and that will be a decent percentage to select a correct and precise government. A politician can only do dirty politics on rural mass, not with elite class.
May I request some IT savvy guy or team to please look into it. We should be involved more in developing the system, then commenting and arguing on systems.
Hi.
ReplyDeleteMy ideas have got a small light with a news posted on Silicon India forum.
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/NRIs_may_get_voting_rights_soon-nid-68748.html/1/1/error1#success
Looks like Indian Govt. want such system. It is only waiting for a consortium of companies to come forward. Mr Nilekani's UID card program will be of great help.
Yup very true I am also thinking about this since from the very beginning of my First year, but Except analysis nothing has been done by me.Hope Nilekani sir's would bring out something from their UID project.Please let me know if any progress exist regarding E_voting or Finger print Based Election.there is a group with the same name "Finger print Based Election" On Facebook/Orkut too.
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