On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Sruthi Krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > It never makes sense to me that one of the conditions for registering to > vote is that you must have lived at the present address for six months. Why > is this necessary? > Logistics?
(Don't want to make a big deal of it, but that quoting was weird) Not denying your point one bit, but culturally speaking India is also an anti-mobility society. 600 years of being rooted to a locale will still not get you recognition as a native in this country. Large scale middle class mobility is a recent phenomenon; since perhaps the '90s[0]. The poor and destitute have been mobile for a slightly longer period, but since these are the people that exist in the margins of society anyway, society does not change its ways for them. Things are changing, but change takes time. There's been some initial debate around allowing postal ballots, so I am sure we will see more in the future. Cheeni [0] While having an argument with me, my neighbor in Hyderabad questioned my right to argue at all given that I had moved into the building only a year ago; and whereas his family had been resident in the neighborhood for a few hundred years.
