We have thousands of software companies in our country. Some of them work for foreign companies and their projects. Some of them do back office for banking sectors. Some of them do government projects. Some of them come up with new innovative digital products.
But why it hasn't striked for a single company or government to make this election process fully digital? Having an electronic voting machine doesn't mean that the full election process is made digital.
I can easily accept the usage of loads and loads of papers, given that they conduct a flawless election. But in the recent election in our place, there was chaos in many of the election booths. You know what the reason is; many people's names were missing in the lists available in the polling booth. Though the people had their voting identity card and other proof with them, they weren't allowed to vote. Many got back to their home frustrated. According to the information from Times of India, A polling agent has revealed that the list given to them was in complete disorder. The list for people to vote in one polling booth is incomplete while these left out names are in another polling booth's list. They have been sending away people to other polling centre.
Why such chaos? Is it not possible to have a centralized database for the country or at least for each state? Isn't it possible to load people's finger prints as their identity in those databases? Is it not possible to add a sensor to the existing voting machine to recognize the finger prints and allow the people to vote? If these could be implemented
we can avoid all these confusions on the day of election
we can have the increased voting percentage in the country
we can reduce the big queue formations we can avoid the forgeries
But how much will this cost the country to implement such a kind of setup for election. Even if it is huge, it’s a onetime cost. Isn't it ? They are not going to spend it every year. After all maintaining the database of fingerprints will be the regular cost for the government. But that's worth the benefits out of it. What you all have to say on my suggestions. Feel free to tell me. May be our thoughts will help our future generations one day.
But why it hasn't striked for a single company or government to make this election process fully digital? Having an electronic voting machine doesn't mean that the full election process is made digital.
I can easily accept the usage of loads and loads of papers, given that they conduct a flawless election. But in the recent election in our place, there was chaos in many of the election booths. You know what the reason is; many people's names were missing in the lists available in the polling booth. Though the people had their voting identity card and other proof with them, they weren't allowed to vote. Many got back to their home frustrated. According to the information from Times of India, A polling agent has revealed that the list given to them was in complete disorder. The list for people to vote in one polling booth is incomplete while these left out names are in another polling booth's list. They have been sending away people to other polling centre.
Why such chaos? Is it not possible to have a centralized database for the country or at least for each state? Isn't it possible to load people's finger prints as their identity in those databases? Is it not possible to add a sensor to the existing voting machine to recognize the finger prints and allow the people to vote? If these could be implemented
we can avoid all these confusions on the day of election
we can have the increased voting percentage in the country
we can reduce the big queue formations we can avoid the forgeries
But how much will this cost the country to implement such a kind of setup for election. Even if it is huge, it’s a onetime cost. Isn't it ? They are not going to spend it every year. After all maintaining the database of fingerprints will be the regular cost for the government. But that's worth the benefits out of it. What you all have to say on my suggestions. Feel free to tell me. May be our thoughts will help our future generations one day.
2 comments:
Hmmmm, Nice thought and practical idea....Will come true one day...... let's dream like how Kalam said... Good work keep writing.
Thank you, little Denny.
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