The Hindu : `Touch-screen' to access electoral rolls

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Sunday, Mar 28, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore

`Touch-screen' to access electoral rolls

By Our Special Correspondent

CUDDALORE, MARCH 27. A ``touch-screen'' computer facility has been set up in the taluk office here for voters in the Cuddalore Lok Sabha constituency. This will facilitate the voters to access the electoral rolls instantaneously to verify their electoral status, free of cost.

The Collector, Gagandeep Singh Bedi, today inaugurated the system, said to be first of its kind in Tamil Nadu, in the presence of the tahsildar, R. Ganaprakasam, and the special tahsildar (Election), C.S. Natarajan.

The voters can view the screen on all working days during office hours, from 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m., and if need be, technicians posted in the office would render assistance in operating the system.

At a mere touch, the screen gives out all details in Tamil with utmost clarity in the order of Parliamentary constituency, Assembly segments, places within each segment, polling stations, names of voters along with addresses and the number of the voter photo identity cards (if given).

The device, a brainchild of the Collector, provides all information on the 12,06,594 voters in the six Assembly segments of Cuddalore constituency — Cuddalore, Nellikuppam, Panruti, Ulundurpet, Rishivandiyam and Sankarapuram — in a tabulated manner.

The software on the electoral rolls has been incorporated with the ``touch-screen facility'' already installed in the taluk office for accessing land records such as chitta and adangal, to make the device serve twin purpose. (The service to get land records is being offered at Rs. 2 per extract.)

The Collector said hands-on training on electronic voting machines for voters which began yesterday would go on for the next about 25 days in the offices of the village administrative officers and panchayats.

The Collector said ever since a complaint box was put up in the election cell, five complaints of wall writings were received, and these had been attended to. Election related complaints could be conveyed over telephone (04142-230652).

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