There is no doubt that we need to think differently.
This data on voter turn out so far in 2009, is within the average rates of the past. So this raises a few questions.
1) How effective has been the effort to get more people to go out and vote?
2) Were these well intentioned efforts based on any evidence / understanding of why people vote or dont, who usually votes, and who often does not, etc.
3) Were the messages appropriate for the right target audience?
4) As had been pointed out by a few political commentators, many of these public interest advertisements were aimed not so much at the electorate, but also at building the brand image of the sponsors and celebrities, and not really aimed at the electors. Is there some elements of truth in this?
5) Once we have constituency wise turnout figures, will it show any significant increase in urban turnout which might lead to support the evidence that the educated urban voters did turn out in larger numbers because of the voter awareness campaigns ?
After the final figures are available, a week or two after the election, it would be a good learning opportunity to look at the data, and draw some lessons.
Barun
Barun Mitra
Empowering India
www.EmpoweringIndia
2020] Results on second phase polls...!
To: India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups .com
Dear all,
I was just looking at the poll percentage of the 2009 elections. Since two phases of elections are over..I was really worried on seeing the poll percentage. The number of peoples turnout for voting was considerably less when compared to 2004 elections. Recently in the second phase of elections only 55% were recorded.
Phase 2 Elections poll turnuot
State 2004 2009
Andhra 72 68
Assam 69 62
Bihar 57 44
Goa 59 55
J&K 45 46
Jarkhand 57 47
Karnataka 62 55
MP 49 45
Maharastra 55 56
Manipur 56 65
Orissa 68 55
Tripura 67 80
UP 46 44
Total 59 55
Only Tripura has did a good job. I don't think those peoples are influenced by Internet and online campaigns.
What happened to the online vote campaign, online awareness on the importance of voting. Seemed to be a election with more number of young votes...but less number of votes registered when compared to 2004 elections. Does this proves that the approach was totally failed ? what is the result of the "n" number of NGO's working on this for past years ?
Wish to have some good numbers in the third and final phase of elections. And that too for sure In tamil nadu we need a change....lets see...!
One thing I am sure that.....we have to change the approach for making the peoples vote. Let's think differently.
Jai Hind...!
With love...Sathish.
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