The most annoying factor as far as the conduct of the general election in Chennai was concerned was that a vast number of permanent residents were turned away by poll officials as their names were “found missing” in the voter’s list or for not having the booth slip. (Chennai city, “Confusion over booth slips leads to many being turned away from polling centres”, April 19). While it is important for citizens to exercise their voting rights, it is equally important that the voter list should be perfect without any omission of names. In this day and age of electronic communication also, the Election Commission of India should be able to think of a quick and credible solution. During the last elections, the voter list was checked by door-to-door verification. In certain areas, residents of entire streets found their names missing.
D. Sethuraman,
Chennai
After going through the reports published in the Chennai edition of the daily, on the conduct of the general election in the city, I have this to say. India is flooded with software engineers and smartphones. Access to the Internet is also not very difficult as far as cities are concerned. Therefore, why cannot online voting be introduced? The voter turnout percentage in Chennai north, south and central has been put at 61.76%, 57.43% and 57.86%, respectively. I am sure things would have been better had online voting been a reality.
R. Ganesan,
Chennai
