What is 'Remote EVM' all about? : How will it be beneficial for the migrants
<p>Something has comeup, which will defiantly help the migrants who migrate from their own place to other places for the work. Something which will help the country to seek more no. of votes from the eligible voters across the country, even if the voter is not in that particular Constituency. How is this possible?The Election Commission of India has introduced a prototype of a “Remote EVM” machine on Thursday, which would enable the migrants to vote for their constituency without being present at the spot. The proposed Prototype of the remote would help to handle Multiple Constituencies from a single remote.Also read: Rest in Peace HeeraBa : PM Modi’s Mother left us at 100According to the Election Commotion of India, they have already invited around 8 nationals 57 states across the country in order to share how the prototype actually works, and has already shared a concept note with them on legal, operational, administrative and technological challenges.The commission made it clear that </p>
05:50 PM Dec 31, 2022 IST
Something has comeup, which will defiantly help the migrants who migrate from their own place to other places for the work. Something which will help the country to seek more no. of votes from the eligible voters across the country, even if the voter is not in that particular Constituency. How is this possible?
The Election Commission of India has introduced a prototype of a “Remote EVM” machine on Thursday, which would enable the migrants to vote for their constituency without being present at the spot. The proposed Prototype of the remote would help to handle Multiple Constituencies from a single remote.
According to the Election Commotion of India, they have already invited around 8 nationals 57 states across the country in order to share how the prototype actually works, and has already shared a concept note with them on legal, operational, administrative and technological challenges.
The commission made it clear that already they have sent concept note regarding the remote EVM to the political parties, including the problems of domestic migrants, implementation of Model Code of Conduct, ensuring secrecy of voting, facility of polling agents for identification of voters, process and method of remote voting, and counting of votes amongst other issues.
Why Remote EVM?
The administrative challenges include enumerating remote voters-self declaration, ensuring secrecy of voting at remote locations, provision of polling agents at remote voting booths, and ensuring identification of voters to avoid impersonation.
The ECI have noted that there were multifarious reasons for a voter not opting to register in a new place of residence, thus missing out on exercising the right to vote. The inability to vote due to internal migration is one of the prominent reasons to be addressed to improve voter turnout and ensure participative elections.
Out-migration due to the need to work, marriage, and education, is predominant among the rural population in overall domestic migration. Approximately 85% of the internal migration is within the States.
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