Voter’s Awareness!!

• Our great constitution makers had selected democracy as a form of governance in India. In Uttar pradesh, over 1.6 crore voters elected 347 representatives of the state assembly in 1951,at that time over 3.1 crore people were registered as voters. Now it is whopping over 12 crores.
• The election commission of india is responsible for the superintendence, direction and control of the entire process for conduct of elections to parliament and legislature of every state and to the offices of president and vice-president of india.

• In recent times, the voting percentage declined due to passive role of voters. This gave rise to a need to make the people aware of their voting rights and to motivate them to vote.
• The commission is recent years has cleansed the system of fake electorate and voters’ list and took concerted effort to enlist genuine voters. The electors photo identity card, epic was a great step towards checking fake voting.

• Now, the electoral rolls also have voter’s photo apart from his or her name and address.
• For the first time in the history of Indian elections, the commission has arranged live webcast of polling from some selected polling booths in five states where assembly elections are currently going on.
• Not only the commission’s officials but general public will witness the poll process in his/her home.
• The sms is being used to register polling percentage every hour of polling on commission’s website.