‘E-postal voting could be helpful for NRIs’

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She further added: “E-postal voting will really help a lot of NRIs staying away from the country to cast their votes.”

Kalyani K, a student in the University at Buffalo, US, said: “I have travelled to different countries for my education.As a student; it is very tough to manage my expenses. So it is a far thought for me to travel to India. Most of us here think that one vote will not make any difference. It is also because of having few options to cast our votes. The government should… address this issue. If the e-postal system is a success, we can cast our votes.”

Raja T, an Indian working abroad,said: “Issues with visas, permission from jobs, availability of flights, and other reasons stop us from flying to our country. Election dates are mostly announced a month prior to the elections, but we need at least six months of planning before

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He continued: “E-postal voting sounds helpful, but it might come with a lot of issues. Foreign countries have their own rules and regulations. Implementing e-portal voting will be a challenging task for India. If done in the right way, it will be useful for many NRIs living in various parts of the world.” hamsaveni.n@iijnm.org that it requires little hardware, making it portable for access from remote locations and it is more secure than on-premise hosting. Data is accessible at high speeds, but it comes with its own drawbacks like cloud downtime where we encounter reboots, network outages or sluggish connectivity due to its heavy reliance on the Internet.”

The Observer noticed that most NRIs were not aware they could register themselves as overseas voters and cast their votes during the elections.

The law minister said that on the recommendation of the EC, the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2018 –enabling overseas Indians to cast their votes either in person or by proxy–was passed by the Lok Sabha in August 2018. . The Bill lapsed when the 16th Lok Sabha was dissolved.

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