Times of India:
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government and state election commission have decided to
introduce e-voting in the next local body elections becoming the first state in
the country to enable citizens to cast their franchise online.
"This will be for the first time in the country that in any official election
the method of online voting via internet will be used, beginning with Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation polls scheduled in mid-October followed by Rajkot,
Vadodara, Surat, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar local body elections," sec secretary, P
H Shah said.
"A task force has been formed to cover all the aspects of e-voting headed by
state election commissioner K C Kapoor," Shah said.
Also, Gujarat's urban development department has issued a draft notification
asking for objections and suggestions on the issue last week, he said.
"The purpose for introduction of online voting is to make affluent class people
vote, who generally avoid going to polling booths and standing in long queues
to vote. Besides, youths will be attracted to vote in this manner," he said.
"We are planning to rope in top IT firms of the country to give end-to-end
services as it involves finer aspects like secrecy of vote, authenticity of the
voter and ensuring that no bogus voting takes place," Shah said.
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