Hope the v c community will not be neglected in the accessability point of view. Renuka
On 5/18/10, Amar Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > It will be indeed interesting to see that how they ensure that only people > from Gujrat are voating, how only one IP voats one time etc. > I guess the way is to type your voater id card no., which will prevent all > unauthorized voating. > Lets wait and lets hope to hear from our Gujrat members about their voating > experience once it gets established. > Regards > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:36 AM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [AI] E voting in Gujarat > >> 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. >> >> Regards >> >> "Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God-- but to create >> Him." >> >> --Arthur C. Clarke >> >> (Rajesh Asudani) >> >> Assistant General Manager, >> Reserve Bank of India >> Nagpur >> 09420397185 >> O: 0712 2806676 >> Res: 0712 2591349 >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and >> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are >> addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, >> review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in >> this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If >> you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail >> or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any >> attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for >> >> the presence of viruses. The Bank accepts no liability for any damage >> caused by any virus transmitted by this email. >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
