block quote (nine phases, six weeks) and most expensive (Rs 3,500 crore by Election Commission estimates) general election in the history of the country. Wouldn't the money, time, manpower and resources spent on this mammoth exercise be reduced through electronic polling? And des-pite the substantially better voter turnout this year, wouldn't we have got even better numbers if people were remote voting from their mobiles, laptops or PCs than venturing out in the heat to cast their vote? No, says, former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi. "If they can't spend their time and energy to go out on voting day, which is a paid holiday, then e-voting is too unfair a demand," he says. block quote end Full debate can be read at: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?290677
-- Avinash Shahi M.Phil Research Scholar Centre for The Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
