I was talking to a cousin of mine, he informed me of an innovative use of mobile phone during the recent Mandal level elections in his village. The phone used was a lentry level phone of Nokia with a cam.(If I am not wrong it costs around 2500 rs )
The problem statement: It is an open secret that a voter is bribed to vote for a candidate . The bribe is usually a packet of chicken/veg biryani + country liquor for a male and sarees + trinkets if female. Additional benfits if it happens to be a close fight. The candidate after mobilising voters has to ensure that the voter did in fact vote for him/her. Many losing candidates owe their defeat to such cross voting of professional voters.
Solution: To ensure that voter infact voted for him, a entreprising candidate arranged for his men to lend the professional voter a mobile phone with a camera, ask him/her to take picture of the ballot after stamping and before casting it into the box. Only then was the voter given promised benfits.
Brilliant.
I am wondering whether this can be scaled to an Electronic Voting Machine.
Will the upcoming general elections throw up many more innovative uses of the mobile, be it legal or real?
In India the Mobile Rocks!!
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