Jaipur: Before the Assembly by-elections, the principle causes for low voting within the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan are thought-about to be political apathy, unavailability of the suitable candidate or different, lengthy queues, lack of transportation and unhealthy climate. Amidst the elevated concern over low voting share, these causes have emerged within the Knowledge Attitude Practice Baseline Survey of the Election Department. After this, it has been really useful to take a number of steps together with growing sweep actions in districts like Karauli and Bikaner, organizing particular camps and attracting younger voters. The Knowledge Attitude Practice-KAP Baseline Survey has additionally raised questions on the position of celebrities or particular personalities created as state icons for elections.
Questions concerning the position of state icon:
-Under this survey, out of whole 10834 voters, 52.01 p.c i.e. 5635 voters didn’t obtain messages or messages for voting from these state icons.
-This has proven that as a substitute of simply making a state icon, it’s essential to particularly monitor their efforts to extend the voting share.
Lack of web site info and different consciousness:
-It was discovered within the survey that regardless of the web and clear system of the Election Commission of India, there was a lack of expertise concerning it.
-71.81 p.c voters couldn’t entry the Commission’s web site www.voters.eci.gov.in. Only 28.19 p.c voters might entry it.
Not discovering the suitable candidate and political apathy:
It was seen within the survey that the voter was effectively conscious of his voting rights and on the similar time he didn’t like that there ought to be any outdoors interference in his voting, however political apathy was seen among the many voters. It can be believed that such an acceptable candidate couldn’t be discovered. 70.65 p.c voters voted after analyzing or seeing the candidates and social gathering affiliation, relatively than household, caste and faith, has been the principle foundation of candidate voting.
Long queues:
-The survey has emphasised on rationalization of polling cubicles. About 63.22 p.c voters mentioned this was crucial drawback.
-Long queues of voters in lots of areas and lack of transport means had been additionally thought-about a serious motive for low voting.
– Decrease in curiosity of voters in Lok Sabha elections on account of meeting elections.
According to the findings of the survey, voters had been much less concerned with voting within the Lok Sabha elections than within the meeting elections.
-During the survey, it was discovered that 95.70 p.c voters voted within the meeting elections as towards 91.07 p.c within the meeting elections.
-In the Lok Sabha elections, throughout the survey, solely 88.14 p.c voters voted towards 90.38 p.c.
-29 p.c of the individuals who responded within the baseline survey believed that the usage of muscle energy in elections has lowered by 3 p.c.
Reliability of EVM:
Even although questions had been raised on EVMs after the meeting election leads to Haryana had been opposite to the exit polls, the survey discovered that
84.23 p.c voters have expressed confidence in EVMs.
-In the survey, the least 80.98 p.c ST class, 81.76 p.c SC class, 84.81 p.c OBC class and 86.66 p.c normal class have expressed confidence in EVMs.
More than 97 p.c voters have thought-about the conduct and conduct or perspective of the polling personnel and assist employees throughout voting as useful. In this complete survey, many of the voters have proven a optimistic perspective in the direction of making voting necessary, which reveals their religion in democracy.
