India Chooses All-Electronic Voting

Posted by timothy on Monday July 28, 2003 @07:45PM from the how-much-would-a-billion-ballots-weigh dept.

MaximusTheGreat writes "While the U.S. debates the merits of e-voting, India has decided to have all electronic polls in the next elections for its billion strong population. Though India has used e-voting partially in previous elections, it will be the first time a Lok Sabha (central parliament) election will be held in the country since 1952 without the use of ballot papers. Election Commission plans to use about 800,000 electronic voting machines. Also, taking note from India's experience, other commonwealth countries like Malaysia and Britain will be sending representatives to India to see the use of EVMs during the Assembly elections. On a related note they plan to make voter's identity card mandatory for voting."

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Re:*Shakes head* by insecuritiez · 2003-07-28 19:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

India has some of the best medicin and education in the world. Much of the country is still remote though. It's happening, faster than it did in the US/Europe too.
Umm no actually by quinkin · 2003-07-28 20:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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Not to say that this doesn't occur in India, but the article you refer to is in Islamabad - the capital of Pakistan.
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