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India Chooses All-Electronic Voting
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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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.
I don't understand advanced techies... they seem to depend on Hotmail spam for:
1. Free diplomas and education
2. Good credit checks
3. Low mortgage rates on their never-ending debts.
4. Service Packs
5. Viruses
6. Anti-viruses
7. Elongated pelvic protrusions.
8. Mammiary Hyper-plasia
etc. etc...
Funny.
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
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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the caste system exists in india as much as the racial system exists outside india.Sure there are regions where u find jerks...who still thrive on the caste system, but im pretty sure there are as many red necks in d world.The premise of a caste system is :U are born into a caste,high or low and treated accordingly. Pity thats pretty much the same premise of the racial system...u are born either white,brown or may be black. Given electronic voting exists and has done well in the racial system...the caste system will live upto its sibling in all its glory and gory :)
they have girls marry dogs...literally
Grow up, you stupid fuck.
California used to have extremely low college and university fees (between $50 for community college and $250 for UC Berkeley per sememster) back in the 1960's and 1970's, but that was when the students were actually from California. The result was a home-grown high tech boom that lasted for decades and invented whole industries. Then the Carter administration got the great idea of using American schools to educate the whole world (reducing progress in access to higher education for Americans at the same time). Now, the majority of students in California colleges are foreign and since tuition only pays a small part of the cost of the higher education infrastructure, naturally the cost is skyrocketing and domestic taxpayers have no way to keep up with these costs, so tuition is becoming impossibly high for US citizens. This expense is one of the largest in the California budget, and one of the primary reasons for the $38,000,000,000.00 budget deficit in this state. As a result of this "investment," the "silicon valley" economy (by which I refer to California's generally high tech focused economy) is collapsing as the foreign legions we have trained transfer whole industries to China and India (whose high tech economies are growing in the double digits, thank you very much).
As this policy continues, advanced education, especially professorships and PhD candidate positions become increasingly inaccessable for Americans, both because of the high domestic cost of this political program, and because American students are offered fewer and fewer of these positions in American Universities.
The trend toward free higher education in the United States, which was well underway by the 1970's, was tossed out and replaced by the agenda of corporations which wanted to profit from the transfer of industries to cheaper labor countries; Use of American colleges to train foreign labor was a convenient and profitable part of that process of third world industrialization for certain global corporations. The loss of opportunity for Americans in their own country has been profound, and for black Americans it has been tragic.
Just as the civil rights movement of the 1960's made access to higher education a possibility for black Americans, the rise of mass foreign enrollment systematically removed the possibility of higher education for millions of American blacks who were the descendents of the plantation system that had ill prepared them for assimilation into a high technology culture, and which required a systematic approach to improving their educational skills which was never attempted at the college level. White males, on the other hand, were the only group in American society that suffered an actual decline in both access to higher education and lifetime income, due to the wholesale reduction of opportunities previously available to them as a group.
Free or essentially free higher education in America had been a reachable goal in the US, and a reality in parts of the US in the 1960s and 1070s. Under the current policy of global exploitation of the US educational infrastucture, it is not nor will it become a possibility, and the devistating financial and career consequences for non-immigrant Americans are predictable and were predicatable at the time of these policy implementations. At no time, however, was the US population advised or questioned regarding these choices over the use of the higher education facilities in America, and the only semi-related review, proposition 209 in California, in which California voters made unconstitutional access to higher education by illegal immigrants (which did not speak in any way to visa granted access by the federal government), the will of the people was summarily dismissed by the court without review by any elected representatives.
The trend in the US today is towards ever higher expense for higher education, and ever more restricted access to higher education for US citizens, as US higher education facilities are increasingly marketed world-wide as both licenced corporate research institutions and training centers for students who sponsored by corporations, governments, or wealthy families abroad.