| Compulsory Voting | | | | forces should be allowed to cast their votes |
| Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate. | | | | through proxy and they may be allowed to |
| If we have adopted democratic system, we shall | | | | appoint a member of their own house. When we |
| have to adopt compulsory voting system so that | | | | have introduced this electronic system, the people |
| the people who sit in the houses should be | | | | should be allowed to cast their votes through |
| elected by all the people of the country and not | | | | these channels. |
| by a minority. If we see the voting system in | | | | While making voting compulsory, we should ban all |
| India only half of our voters cast their votes and | | | | collection of people by the political people. What |
| half of our voters do not go to a voting both for | | | | they want to place before the people that should |
| casting their votes. We have not conducted a | | | | be disclosed through the electronic media or |
| survey as to why the remaining half of our | | | | through the press. The candidates should also give |
| voters are not casting their votes. They may be | | | | an account of their qualifications, training, |
| disliking the people who are standing as candidates. | | | | experience, their background and their plans and |
| They may not be liking any one of the candidates | | | | projects which they have in their mind and which |
| standing in their constituency. They may be rich | | | | they shall be carry out if they are given a seat in |
| and powerful and they may not be liking that | | | | the house. They should also give an account from |
| they should stand in the same line in which poor | | | | where they had arranged money for the election |
| people are standing. The state could not establish | | | | and they should also give an account of their |
| separate polling booths for the rich, powerful and | | | | health, age and expectancy of life. If the people |
| educated people who are not liking to stand in the | | | | are ill and diseased and they are just trying to |
| same lines where illiterate people are standing. | | | | have a seat in the house for carrying on their |
| When the nominees are to be elected by the | | | | medical treatment, the people should avoid to |
| people, this term people should means all the | | | | elect such people, |
| eligible people who can cast their votes and not a | | | | The people of India are not in a position to send |
| single group. If we apply the correct calculation, | | | | their own candidates to the houses, because here |
| when a candidate could not get more than half of | | | | in India this work has been the responsibility of |
| the votes, it means he is a rejected candidate. | | | | the political parties and they are themselves |
| But here only those are occupying the seats of | | | | nominating the people and the people i.e. the |
| power who could not catch more than twenty | | | | voters have got no say in the election of the |
| percent votes of the area from where they | | | | man. They are simply voters and they are to |
| were contesting. If we are to see that only those | | | | vote in favour one though that may be a |
| be allowed to sit in the houses who get at least | | | | stranger to the people of the constituency from |
| thirty three percent votes, then we shall have to | | | | which the candidate is standing. All these items |
| introduce compulsory voting system and we shall | | | | are non-democratic, but we cannot alter all these |
| have to reduce the number of political parties. | | | | basics which are in operation in most of the |
| Under the present circumstances, it is not possible | | | | countries. The people who are with money and |
| to declare a candidate elected only if he catches | | | | who are belonging to one of the gangs in politics, |
| at least thirty three per cent votes of the area. | | | | they can stand in elections and the people who |
| The people who are not voting are violating the | | | | are just voters come and cast their votes and |
| norms of the democracy and therefore, they are | | | | then they are pushed back to suffer for another |
| criminals and they must be punished. If there is no | | | | term of five years or more. |
| law, we should frame that law because people in | | | | Compulsory voting system shall be writing of |
| countries like in India only have got fear of law | | | | some of the problems which are being faced by |
| and all other persuasion fail. We can introduce a | | | | the people. time has come when educated people |
| system where votes could be cast by proxy. The | | | | should come forward and vote and it could be |
| head of the family may be allowed to cast votes | | | | ascertained only if there is compulsory voting |
| by proxy. We can introduce a system under | | | | system. and in India this system should be |
| which we can catch votes from the ill, old and | | | | adopted without any further delay. |
| diseased people. The people in army, in security | | | | |