Bihar to Held Online Voting: Parties Pick Poll Battles Over COVID-19

Bihar to Held Online Voting the deputy chief minster “Mr. Sushil Kumar Modi” on Tuesday said the upcoming Bihar assembly elections will involve digital campaigning and people may not need to go polling booths to vote if the Election Commission of India approves the online voting process.

It is certain that the elections cannot be held in a conventional manner owing to corona virus pandemic. Recently south Korea also used this method to vote. Bihar elections may also be held on the line of maintaining the social distancing at polling booths.

Assembly elections in Bihar are due in October – November this year. But due to corona virus pandemic it has a cast a shadow on not only the election but electioning as well. Deliberating upon the possibility of online voting the senior BJP functionary said to election commission has been working on the idea of holding online elections even before Covid -19 attacks.

Several countries are adopting the online medium to vote. Thus election commission has the idea of online medium. Thus EC develops such a system here as well then voters may not be required to go to the polling booths and exercise their franchise sitting at home.

Old methods will change and new technologies are required to be adopted for reaching out to the electorate. Interaction with the electorate will be done mostly through digital medium. Today in every house in Bihar has a television set and 18 hours electricity. Interaction with the party workers in two hours long video and video sessions every day.

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Bihar to Held Online Voting Thus the election will be digital election involving digital engineering. There will be increase of door to door campaigning and micro planning for elections. Digital campaigning will be held also people will no need to go to polling booths to vote. They may exercise their franchise through electronic means while sitting in their home.