improving voter list accuracy
Text of the message posted to the CAF googlegroup:
A certain report that I had read a few months back had stated that the electoral list, on an average across the country, is only some 35% accurate. Whereas, the slum lords ensure that all the people, who are perceived as their constituents, are definitely on the list, the educated lot in general are not all that persuasive in this regard. Making available polling booth/ ward/ constituency - wise voter lists on the net, something that can help ensure higher accuracy, has still not been undertaken by the EC. It is largely because of such a scenario that even people held in highest esteem by the public at large ( A P Venkateswaran to name just one) come a cropper at the hustings.
As things stand today, the EC goes about enlisting the services of government school teachers for updating its lists, paying a pittance to them for the job. No surprise then that the accuracy is only at such an abysmal level. Further, when a person re-locating to a new address wants the change recorded with the EC, the procedure today is totally unfriendly, making for further inaccuracy of the lists. Isn't it time we, the citizens, pressed for the job to be re-assigned to some professional agency? And, shouldn't this be accorded the highest ptriority?
A certain report that I had read a few months back had stated that the electoral list, on an average across the country, is only some 35% accurate. Whereas, the slum lords ensure that all the people, who are perceived as their constituents, are definitely on the list, the educated lot in general are not all that persuasive in this regard. Making available polling booth/ ward/ constituency - wise voter lists on the net, something that can help ensure higher accuracy, has still not been undertaken by the EC. It is largely because of such a scenario that even people held in highest esteem by the public at large ( A P Venkateswaran to name just one) come a cropper at the hustings.
As things stand today, the EC goes about enlisting the services of government school teachers for updating its lists, paying a pittance to them for the job. No surprise then that the accuracy is only at such an abysmal level. Further, when a person re-locating to a new address wants the change recorded with the EC, the procedure today is totally unfriendly, making for further inaccuracy of the lists. Isn't it time we, the citizens, pressed for the job to be re-assigned to some professional agency? And, shouldn't this be accorded the highest ptriority?
posted by Muralidhar Rao at
5:38 AM
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