Goa's civic polls
to go electronic
Sandesh Prabhudesai
20 June 2007
Following Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, Goa has now
decided to conduct elections of self-governing bodies also
through electronic voting machines.
The state is scheduled to go for elections of 13 municipalities
and 50 zilla panchayats by 2009.
The decision in this regard was taken at a two-day national
conference of state election commissioners at Nainital. N
Gopalswami, the chief election commissioner, presided over
the meeting.
According to Goa state election commissioner P M Borkar,
the state would use 25 per cent of its own EVMs while the
rest would be provided by the ECI.
Goa was the first state in the country to use EVMs in June
1999 Assembly polls.
Though recently concluded state Assembly elections also used
the EVMs, the panchayats elections held a month earlier however
were conducted by using old system of ballot papers.
Due to this, the counting of panchayats polls was going on
till late night while Assembly results were out by 1.30 pm.
Goa would be the second state, after Rajasthan, to conduct
all elections electronically.
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