Digital Polls!!

I was a booth volunteer on booth 52 (Tilak Vidyalay, Dhantoli) in Nagpur on April 10th when polling for 2014 General elections took place in Nagpur. We came across many voters having valid voter ID cards but their names were missing from the voter list provided by the election commission. They were moving from one booth to another to check their names in the list. These voters could not cast their votes in the election in spite of having valid IDS. Next day we read in the newspapers that there are about 60000 voters whose names are missing from the list in Nagpur. I request the election commission of India to look into the matter and correct the voter list ASAP.

 On a different note, currently polls are being done in phases and I heard that the EVMs will be stored at the safe and secured place to be opened on the day of counting. How about attaching data/SIM cards to EVMs to securely transfer voting data to a central computer server at the end of the voting day so that the data for all the polling booths is securely stored centrally and any tampering of voting data is avoided/caught due to cross checking? EVMs may still be kept for verification. This may also help reduce the counting time at the day of results using computerized reports. Hope this makes sense. Shall appreciate your feedback. Thank you for reading! Amit
Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

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