• Report Poll Irregularities With Vote Report India

    Report Poll Irregularities With Vote Report India

    Techtree News Staff, Apr 20, 2009 1846 hrs IST

    Users can SMS, email on violations of the Election Commission's model code of conduct

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Indian political circles have suddenly sprung to action with the return of the election season. Considering the massive scale at which the election process is carried out, poll irregularities and violations of the electoral code of conduct are quite common. However, it's a known fact that very few incidents are actually reported.


 


To change all that, Vote Report India, a citizen initiative to bring transparency in the Indian election process, has announced the launch of its collaborative election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections at http://votereport.in/


 



 


Vote Report India provides a platform to Indian citizens to report poll related incidents. Users contribute direct SMS, email, and web reports on violations of the Election Commission's Model Code of Conduct. The platform will then aggregate these direct reports with news reports, blog posts, photos, videos and tweets related to the elections from all relevant sources, in one place, on an interactive map. The information will also be made available via email, and RSS feed, and SMS, so that concerned parties can track the irregularities in the election process easily.


 


Vote Report India is the result of non-partisan, all-volunteer collaboration between software developers, designers, academics and other professionals committed to ensure a free, fair and transparent election process in India.


 


The votereport.in platform is powered by two non-profit open-source projects - Ushahidi and SwiftRiver - managed by eMoksha. Ushahidi is an award-winning platform that crowd-sources citizen reporting. SwiftRiver is a platform that makes sense of multiple sources of information in a fast-changing crisis situation. eMoksha is a non-profit organization that aims to enable stronger democracies through increased citizen awareness and engagement.


 


Citizens will be able to file a report by sending a message starting with VoteReport to 5676785, sending an email to report@votereport.in , tweeting a report with the hashtag #votereportor or by simply filling a form at http://votereport.in.

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Discussion Board
(2) Comments
Dr V.Janaki
,Chennai, on Apr 29, 2009 12:35 PM
Please publiscise this. Many citizens are unaware. Disabled voters too need to inform the concerned authorities. please keep in touch
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Dolli Shekhar D
,Kulgaon, Badlapur East, Ambarnath Taluka, Thane Dist., on Apr 23, 2009 10:42 AM
I am trying to know whether I am in the Voters' List. I had duly applied months back at KULGAON, Badlapur East, Ambarnath Taluka, Thane District. Is it possible to get this information on Internet? Howt go about it?
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