Why to 'EVOLVE'?

A whole day and total vote counted in Kathmandu Metropolitan not more than 150. Counting votes is always a difficult task and when it has more importance like Constitutional and Local Body Election, it becomes even more tedious. When the number of voters increases to hundreds of millions, it becomes even more difficult to do it physically.

After more than a century since the introduction of the first voting machine, we still vote and count manually and mechanically. Nowadays voting techniques such as Direct Recording Voting System, Direct-recording electronic voting system, and public network direct-recording electronic voting system are available. Even though we still prefer the same old technique. Some decades ago there were some security and trust issues with electronic and public network based voting machines. But nowadays, they have evolved drastically and provided top level privacy to voters and are secured from alterations.

If the latest voting techniques are effective and secured than the method we currently use, then why not use the latest techniques. The simplest answer many will think of will be technical infeasibility. Nepal is a scientifically and technically poor country, and many people here still are completely unfamiliar with electronic machines and the Internet. There are many individuals who still don’t know how to put the stamp on a ballot paper. For public network based approach, there are many villages which still do not have Internet and electricity services. Those situations make use of public network electronic voting machines completely infeasible.