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Election Commission of India unveils Voter Turnout App
Election Commission of India has launched a new mobile app for the voters across the country to see the realtime availability of voter turnout during the election season in the country. The beta version of the ECI’s Voter Turnout app is available for download on the Google Play Store and as of now it has ..
Topics: Election Commission of India • Elections • Google Play • HERE WeGo • Mobile app • Mobile software • Online marketplaces • Software • System software • Voter turnout
Haryana CEO Rajeev Ranjan inaugurates Voter Park in Gurugram
Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Rajeev Ranjan has inaugurated India’s first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ in VikasSadan building complex, Gurugram, to raise voter awareness instructing people about the electoral process. At the park, voters will gain information about the polling process and the archives of elections in the country. The park will help to motivate qualified people to ..
Topics: Elections • Voter registration • Voter suppression
Indian Statistical Institute’s report on VVPAT Sample size to Election Commission
Indian Statistical Institute has granted its report on the sample size of VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) slip counting to Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner. Following this, Indian Statistical Institute will systematically analyse and scientifically examine the issue of VVPAT Slip verification with an electronic count of the Electronic Voting Machines. The report submitted ..
Topics: Election technology • Elections • Elections in India • Electoral fraud • Electoral reform in India • Electronic voting • Electronic voting in India • Politics • Voter-verified paper audit trail • Voting machine
Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
Macky Sall has been re-elected for a second term as President of Senegal with a 58% majority in the first round voting in February 2019 Senegalese presidential election. The President of Senegal is elected using the two-round system; a candidate must receive over 50% of the vote to be elected in the first round. If ..
Topics: Abdoulaye Wade • Countries • Elections • In Senegal • Macky Sall • Senegal • Senegalese presidential election • Two-round system
Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn-in as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
On 16th December 2018, Ranil Wickremesinghe has once again become the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka after the end of the weeks-long political crisis in the island nation. On 26th October 2018, Mr. Ranil Wickremsing was ousted as Prime minister of Sri Lanka. He was replaced by Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister. Mr. Rajapaksa resigned ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
Topics: Elections • Ranil Wickremesinghe • Sri lanka