Loading ...Inefficient Election Process is top of every voter’s mind esp. those who don’t vote. Election Reforms have been slow and rare in our country. In fact most of the rules that have been set today are a result of Judicial Intervention at the Highest Level. There have been even cases when Legislature had sought to bring in new laws to avoid election reforms.
Probably the reason for this pathetic state is that the people for whom the law applies set the law and not others. The politicians set the rules on how the elections should be conducted, who can contest, etc…. and naturally they will set the rules in favour of themselves….
Sample this:
a. Election Commission has recommended that a person, who is accused of serious criminal charges and where Court is prima facie satisfied about his involvement in the crime and consequently framed charges, must be kept out of electoral process.
b. Election Commission has recommended that a person should be allowed to contest from more than one constituency at a time.
c. Commission has recommended that there must be a provision of Negative Voting in the Ballot Paper/ EVM itself
d. Advertisements of achievement of the Governments should be prohibited for a period of six months prior to the date of expiry of the term of the house
Read the complete Pending Election Reform List in this Link (PDF). (NOTE: This list is pending from 2004!!!)
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