Need for Electronic voting in India.... (Score 1)

Conducting an election for 1 billion people is no easy task, the various costs that the government will incurr on a traditional paper based voting system i) Printing of the ballot paper (paper on which the vote is marked), this takes about 60-70 % of the cost of election thats coz because the crieteria for being a candidate are a) the person must be above 24 b) the deposit was earlier INR 1000 to 2000 odd thats about $25 - $50 max. then the no of candiates used to be around 50, in some places it had touched 100, think of printing a paper with 100 candiates name on it and a few million copies of it, u get the point.... ii) logistics of movement of ballot boxes and personell and the security along with it and personnel payements about 20 - 25 % iii) misc 5% like the security ink, etc the initial cost of acquring electronic voting machines are a bit high, but since the same machines can be used for all public elections, the long term benifits are cumulative and it is clearly visible the electronic voting machines help in reducing the money spent on ballot paper by a minimum of 50% which can be used for other development purposes this system was tested in earlier elections and everyone is satisfied with this system as this reduces the number of double voting (like the stamp is put for two or more candidates) an other voting anomilies.....