Initiate Steps To Increase Voter Turnout In Mys: Electoral Officer | Mysuru News
Mysuru: Additional chief electoral officer M Kurma Rao on Monday directed Mysuru district administration officials to initiate all measures to increase the voter turnout in the upcoming parliamentary polls.
He was speaking after presiding over the SVEEP (Systematic Voter Education and Electoral Participation) committee meeting held at the office of deputy commissioner in the city. He said urban assembly segments of the Mysuru district like Krishnaraja, Narasimharaja and Chamaraja recorded poor voter turnout when compared to its rural assembly segments in the recently held assembly elections.
Officials must soon identify the poor voter turnout polling booths and initiate measures to sensitise the voters about the importance of voting, he said.
As migration was identified as one of the main reasons for poor turnout in such assembly segments, he asked the officials to educate such voters to shift their address, polling booths to their new address wherever they are living now by submitting form number 8.
He also urged the officials to undertake voter turnout increasing awareness activities in all electoral literacy clubs constituted by the district election branch under SVEEP (Systematic Voter Education and Electoral Participation) initiative of the Election Commission for improving voter participation.
Zilla panchayat chief executive officer KM Gayathri said that the district SVEEP committee has formed 822 Electoral Literacy Club to sensitise the voters about the importance of voting. Apart from them, voters were also educated through holding rallies, walkathons, painting and drawing competitions for students, essay writing and speech competitions.
Awareness on EVM
launched in Mysuru
Deputy commissioner KV Rajendra on Monday inaugurated a demonstration of the functioning of electronic voting machines in the district ahead of Lok Sabha polls. Following direction from the Election Commission, the district administration is holding the demonstration of voting devices, including VVPAT, to the public to educate them about the functioning of the devices that are used for voting in the election.
Rajendra said awareness programmes would be conducted ahead of the general election to build confidence among voters about the devices used in the election to record their votes.
A mock election would be conducted during an awareness drive to show them how the devices work and confirmation about their votes through VVPAT – voter-verified paper audit trail, a device that shows the voter whom they had voted for.
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