EC proposes Remote Voting for Migrant Workers

Recently, the Election Commission (EC) announced that it is ready to pilot remote voting for domestic migrants. For this, the commission has developed a prototype for a Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM).

  • In 2020, the EC set up a four-member panel of experts from the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Informatics Centre to assess the technology to enable remote voting.
  • The panel presented a concept plan for the dependence on technology in the conduct of elections.

Rationale behind the Move

Migration

  • As per the 2011 census, there are nearly 45.36 crore migrants in India, amounting to approximately ....
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