BANGALORE: State Election Commissioner C R Chickmath on Monday said that e-voting would be held in a few areas in the state during the municipal elections to be held in 2013. At a programme organised to sign an MoU between the Election Commission and Janaagraha, to update the electoral list to make it 100 per cent reliable, Chickmath said, “We had uploaded the details of over 68 lakh voters in the municipalities across the state and only 20 lakh voters visited it. The fact that only 43 per cent of the voters voted in the municipal elections in Bangalore, reflects the voter apathy in the urban areas. The turn out in other cities including Mumbai and Delhi was also very less. We are planning to introduce e-voting in some of the selected areas, on experimental basis in the state, during the 2013 municipal elections.”Chickmath also said that Gujarat government introduced it in Gandhinagar and Maharashtra government also tried it out by installing kiosks to make e-voting facilities accessible to all the voters in some of the important places. The Election Commission is planning to set up a committee, to discuss various modalities, to evolve a model, to introduce e-voting in the state and has already held talks with Infosys on the issue, he stated. Chickmath also requested Infosys founder N R Narayan Murthy, who was present on the stage, to help the Election Commission evolve a model to introduce e-voting in the state.
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