2008/11/26 Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The voters who matter are being systematically disenfranchised. How > many in Silk have voted ever? In the recent past? > > Registering to vote, and then exercising it is such a huge effort that > most people who are gainfully employed, educated and busy are just > unable to get their vote.
I tried, recently. Turns out that to register in Gurgaon, where I live, I need to produce _two_ proofs of address. The only thing I can produce is a telephone bill. My (court registered) house lease is not acceptable, deems the bureaucrat in charge. My passport has the address of a house I rented in Bangalore between 1999 and 2001, after which I have changed residence within India three times and once outside. I simply have no way of proving, to the bureaucrat's satisfaction, that I actually live in Gurgaon. And so I can't vote. Exactly the same situation as you. Ram
