We have been long experiencing low percentage of people going out to exercise their right to select their legislative representative. Among all factors responsible for this the major factor for this is the major one has to be fear of unwanted violence or nuisance, people creating havoc at the polling booths to assure that their candidate wins and then later on rob people off their hard earned money and not so hard earned money .
Standing in 21st century we have already witnessed people using Electronic Voting Machines in order to get safe and fast results but it’s time we take a step forward and go ahead with online voting. Yes online voting has already been tested for television programs and news paper questions and has been very successful. What online voting or e-voting will ensure is greater participation of youth and old in the electoral process which will automatically lead to a more fair and just legislature.What government can do is issue account name and password to people which they can use to login into the site and cast their votes. The greatest benefit of it would be that results will be out as soon as the last vote is cast and we will save valuable human work hours and time. This would definitely be the best use of technology. At least let’s give it a try
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