The Election Commission has planned to start mapping the population of migrant workers across the country to prepare a roadmap for the introduction of remote voting.<\/span><\/p>\n Remote voting refers to a mechanism that allows electors to vote from locations other than polling stations assigned to their registered constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n Need: <\/b>There are lakhs of voters who are unable to exercise their voting rights on account of geographical barriers<\/strong> due to different reasons, remote voting aims to bridge that gap. This will make the electoral process more inclusive<\/strong>. Election Commission(EC) has been working with IIT-Madras on using Blockchain technology<\/strong> for remote voting.<\/span><\/p>\n There will be a voting machine which has no linkage with the Internet. It will mostly be an EVM.<\/span><\/p>\n EC would then find areas with around 1000-1500 remote voters and will make arrangements and set up a booth.<\/span><\/p>\n At the Booth, EC is trying to develop and deploy a machine that has an electronic display which will show the ballot paper of the voter\u2019s constituency once they press a number on the screen.<\/span><\/p>\n After voting, the machines can be sealed and depending on the states, EC can fly them for counting to one location.<\/span><\/p>\n The key challenge would be to a) make political parties agree to it and b) public acceptability in a country where an EVM machine is questioned till today despite the availability of the VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail .<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Poll commission plans to map migrant population for remote voting\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on <\/b>12th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Election Commission has planned to start mapping the population of migrant workers across the country to prepare a roadmap for the introduction of remote voting. What is Remote Voting? Remote voting refers to a mechanism that allows electors to vote from locations other than polling stations assigned to their registered… Continue reading Poll commission plans to map migrant population for remote voting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[9011,10451,10450,10452],"class_list":["post-146296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-electoral-issues","tag-migrant-issues","tag-populationassociated-issues","tag-remote-voting-project","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700489548},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Remote Voting?<\/b><\/h5>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nHow will remote voting work?
\n<\/b><\/h5>\nWhat is the key challenge to remote voting?<\/b><\/h5>\n