Year - 1989, Place - Vikas Puri, Delhi
An auto all decked up with banners is moving around the by-lanes of DG II block with a loudspeaker blazing "Bahiri (Outer) Delhi se Janta Del ke pratyashi Tarif Singh ko vote de, cycle par mohar lagaye"
Cut to 2009 elections - no banners, no slogans, no autos (atleast in the main cities). Indian elections have lost a bit of charm through some of the measures that were introduced by Shri Left (Sesh)-en.
But one thing has remained constant throughout the last 20 years and that is the voting turnout in successive elections in urban areas. Inspite of energetic campaigns by Wake up, Garib Khan and scores of other personalities, khaas admi (un-aam admi) of India is still not voting.
What can they do to improve the voting percentage by the khaas admi? I actually have a couple of todu (pathbreaking) suggestions?
1. Government should amend laws to include "None of the above" button in the voting machine. I know there is a process whereby you can go to the polling booth and can register that you dont want to vote but it is hardly used. Instead of that they should have the none of the above option and at the time of counting if a particular % say 10% or more votes are in that category there should be re-polling/change of candidates or something
2. Government should allow online voting. Boss - when you can have millions of rupees transactions online, why cant you vote online? Create your account, make it password protected, use digital signatures and vote!
What say?
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it is so unfair that we always have to chose someone either a snake or any other beast. why public can not use the option like 'none of them' :(
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