Polling Through Mobile Phones, New Inisitive by Telangana Governemnt !

 

 

Phone is a digital master key that unlocks our life. Millions of people, use it to buy groceries, send cash to family and friends, read sensitive work documents, save passwords, and update social media ​So why can't I use it to vote? Telangana state government gearing up for a dry run of the first-ever smartphone-based e-voting system in the country. The initiative for the e-voting system was taken by the Telangana State Election Commission , and implemented with support from the Emerging Technologies Wing of the state’s IT Electronics and Communications Department, with technical development by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing .The technical development was also guided by an expert committee comprising Prof. Rajat Moona, director of IIT Bhilai and technical advisor to the Election Commission of India, and professors from IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi.A handful of countries have used electronic voting for years. Estonia has been voting online, with mixed results, since 2005. In Canada, provincial elections still use optical scan ballots, but in 2018 over 150 cities in Ontario voted online. Few years ago, Switzerland demonstrated an online voting system and invited hackers to stress-test the software. ​In India , Will it happen one day? Probably. But it's a way of.