Saturday, 30 April 2016

EC launches mobile app e-voter for Kerala assembly polls


 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched an innovative mobile application titled e-voter with comprehensive details about the forthcoming 2016 Assembly polls in Kerala. 

  • The app is envisaged for voters’ facilitation for search in electoral roll, information regarding candidates, location of polling station, affidavit filed by them, filing of complaint and so on.

About e- voter app :

  •  The e-voter app was developed by the state IT Mission.
  •  It aims at ensuring great transparency and conduct of free and fair elections.
  •  The app has ‘know your candidate’ option that would provide constituency wise details of candidates. 
  • It has ‘constituency list’ option that would give segment wise details of voters (total number of voters, number of male voters and female voters) and total polling stations. 
  • The app will also provide information about previous elections results and names of Chief Ministers.
  •  The e-voter app can be downloaded from the Google Play store and can be installed on any android phone

Election Commission of India (ECI) :
Formed-  25 January 1950 -(Later celebrated as National Voters Day)
Headquarters- New Delhi
 The Election Commission currently consists of a Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners.

  •  Chief Election Commissioner-  Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi
  •  Two Election Commissioners are : Achal Kumar Jyoti and Om Prakash Rawat


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