How is 18% for majority!?

"Your leaders would be what you are".

Basically we will get the government what each of us would deserve. We are lethargic, lazy, inefficient, do not have respect for time, disrespect to fellow citizen etc. So the kind of leaders we will get elected will of that reflection only. Otherwise how could one explain that only 44% voted.

There is another saying " In a democracy, a bad government would be made by the people who do not vote".

Syed

I have to say there are thousands or lakhs of voters who could not vote when they went to vote and their names were not listed and hence not allowed to vote... my dad was not allowed to vote because his name was not in the list. Infact our tenants who are new had their names but my dad who has lived in that same house for the last 32 years had to come back without voting... - So lethargy one side where people did not vote because they dont care - inefficiency made it bad too... I am hoping atleast all those who could vote voted... please vote - thats the power of democracy.

Ramesh Ramanathan of Janaagraha, an NGO found out that there is a case of broken voter's list for BBMP, which is why the voter turn out was reportedly low.

http://www.hinduonnet.com...

In an article on page 4 of 'Times of India', Bangalore Edition, dated May 12th, 2008, Mr Ramanathan explains this further.

His opinion was that the voter list was flawed due to errors of omission and errors of comission. The first error was that there are many names that should be there byt are not and the second was names that should'nt be there becasuse people have either died or moved on, but are still on the list.

These errors are systemic. They happen because of migration into the city and migration within the city. They also happen because there is no link between the city registrar to record deaths etc. 

Hi Praja,

During the first phase of elections in Bangalore, shamefully, all we could manage is a meagre 50% turnout.

Now, we got various reasons for not achieving the desired number, ranging from absence of name in the voters list, lack of will to vote, and also faulty voting machines (few cases).

After this elections, the next time we start using the words like democracy, rights and duties, is only few days before the next elections. Till then, its the "raj" of the  elected, even with the 18% majority as stated by "silkboard". 

Now during the recent elections, my friend, when he was standing in the voter's queue, overheard few funny conversations between the authorities and the voters.  An old lady stood in front of the EVM and said "Yaav button otthbekappaaa", (which button should i press), then the person incharge tried to help her and then she finally said "neeve yaavdo ondu otthbidi" (You press some button yourself). In yet another instance a lady wanted to press one more time for her husband who could not turn up. And ironically, my friend himself could not cast his vote because his name was missing in the list and his brother's name appeared twice. 

Funny, but true...inspite of all this, is 50% a real achievement or what!!!!!! 

Gautam

The box at the top on the left-hand side lists all the connected blogs. The answers are there. The unprofessional way the voters lists are compiled and maintained presently is the root cause of the malady. Hopefully, Mr Vidyashankar will have them partly, atleast.

Muralidhar Rao