Voting in Indian Parliament Elections 2014

1. A Software Powerhouse ?

   Yesterday , when I went to polling booth , there was a chaos , with a number of people complaining that their names were missing from the Electoral Rolls ( Voter Lists )

   As per news-reports , in Mumbai alone , some 50,000 people returned home without casting their votes – including Deepak Parekh !

   Then there are some 300 million people who will simply won’t walk down to the nearest polling booths , and wait for 1 hour to cast their votes ( – assuming that some 40 % of the 814 million eligible voters do not exercise their right to vote )

   WHY ?

   Going out to vote is becoming a big hassle

   COULD IT BE OTHERWISE ?

   Sure , if Central Government and the Election Commission care to implement my suggestion for developing a mobile App ( – I called it , VotesApp / see )

   Or , just type in Google , ” VotesApp ”

   HOW WILL IT HELP ?

   • No need for 930,000 polling booths / EVMs / Ink / Papers etc Every voter’s own mobile becomes a miniature EVM !
   • Nor any need to deploy 1,100,000 people to conduct the polls
   • No need for millions of Police / Military personnel
   • No need for months of advance preparations, across entire country
   • Voting can be completed in just ONE day – instead of over 6 weeks -and results can be declared next day !
   • Voting could be 95 % or more !
   • No worry for booth-capture / bogus voting
   • No worry for any terrorist attacks
   • Enormous saving of time for Voters
   • No need to declare a public holiday – costing thousands of crores worth of production
   • Central Government will save, at least , Rs 2,000 Crores .
   • If business-friendly government comes to power , it would not hesitate to earn Rs 20,000 crores , by enabling 15 million Indian businesses to advertise to 814 million voters , thru this mobile VotesApp – sharply targeting by Gender / Age / Marital Status / City / Street / Education / Income etc
   • No need for Central Government to stop taking even routine decisions

   If a tiny country like Estonia ( population 1.6 million ) can elect its Members of Parliament thru a VotesApp type mobile App , why can’t we ?

   Already 900+ million Indians have mobiles – all of which , will soon become Smart Phones

   And we call our country , a ” Software Powerhouse ” !

   * hemen parekh ( 25 April 2014 / Mumbai )

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