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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Re: [India_Vision_2020] Former Chief Election Commissioner on Electoral reforms - Podcast

Dear and Respected Sir,
The citizens for change forum which organised the marina solidarity gathering has taken awareness of voting to all citizens as a prime agenda for the upcoming polls. one of the points discussed was to know - how could an indian citizen get the right to vote if he /she hasnt registered through the election commission or can it be done through the EC by showing other bonafides of citizenship. please clarify this and let us know the forums/organisations or modes through which this can be done.
yours
Dr.v.pasupathy 

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com> wrote:

Within few weeks, Indian citizens will go to polls to elect the new Union Government.  Already, the citzens and media have started debating on various issues like.

(a) criminalisation of politics;
(b) politicians-bureaucracy nexus;
(c) Governance in democracy;
(d) Election rules 49 (O);
(e) Middle class apathy towards voting; and
(f)  provision of "none of the above' in ballots/EVMs to reject all the candidates

I had a conversation with Mr T S Krishnamoorthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India. During his tenure as CEC, he introduced Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in all the Parliamentary constituencies in 2004 General Elections.  He had also submitted various recommendations to the Prime Minister for improving electoral process.

One of the recommendations is to provide a a button "None of the above" in the EVMs, so that voters will have the choice to reject all the candidates.  Presently, this comes under Section 49 (O), where the voter can exercise this option without any secrecy. 

Please listen to the interesting conversation in the following link

http://www.poduniversal.com/2008/12/none-of-above-option-to-be-included-in.html

We have also provided in the same link, voters guidelines issued by Election Commission of India, for the benefit of citizens.  You may circulate the podcast and guidelines to your contacts.

Srinivasan
prime point
94440 50273


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