Right2Vote

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: The world’s biggest democracy - India is going to polls in few days and lack of online voting option is frustrating for lot of citizens. The 20 million plus NRI community, which has been fighting for their right to vote in Supreme Court, for more than 10 years now will not be [...]

Business Wire India “ The transformation in technology that we have seen in 20 years is more than what world saw in preceding   200 years. ” – Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, on 18 thMarch 2007 at India Today Conclave. Today there is huge debate going on in India regarding Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in voting. Many [...]

E-voting seems a first world kind of thing. You do not need to visit the voting booth and you can vote with the comfort of sitting at your home. The dates of LokSabha assembly elections are announced and political parties have started their campaigns and workshops. Indian citizens are also gearing up for this. [...]

The Lok Sabha poll is on its way. Again India needs to choose the central ruling party for the upcoming 5 years. The largest democratic country is gearing for this big election. Political parties have started their poll campaigns already. India has a large number of voters and every year more voters are added in [...]

For the last three years, I have been meeting lot of politicians, political parties, election officers, government representatives, activists, NGOs and one common thing that I have noticed everywhere is that they blame the voter for the low voter turnout. And when I ask them how many times they themselves have voted – they always [...]

One of the common concern people have against Mobile Voting is hacking. Most of the people do not even understand the meaning of the word, but love to use it as an argument against hacking. Let’s first understand what hacking means:  “Act of cutting into or gaining unauthorized access, esp. remotely, to a computer system [...]

Today there is huge debate going on in India regarding (Electronic Voting Machines) EVM used in voting. Many politicians lead by Mayawati, Arvind Kejriwal, Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi have questioned the EVM and blamed them for the recent poll debacle. And considering they have questioned EVM, they are asking Election Commission (EC) to revert to [...]

This is the only argument people use against Mobile Voting – Coercion (the action or practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.) Let me answer this and would love to discuss it for your views: India is providing postal ballot facility to certain sections – election workers, soldiers. It would [...]

In the last 15 years we have regularly seen India being compared with China. We all are ashamed that our growth rate has been nothing compared to China. Every-time we try to find a reason for the same the conclusion is – India is a democracy, unlike China.   Another regular refrain we here is [...]