Tomorrow will be the first time I will be voting using an EVM. One way or the other I’ve been missing out on voting, mostly because I was out of Bombay during the last election cycle and I couldn’t prove that I was staying where I was staying. During the Lok sabha elections it turned out that our name wasn’t on the list because we had shifted homes across constituencies and there was no one home when people came over to do the enumeration. Now, thanks to the efforts of my brother, we are finally registered voters in Thane.
The only problem is there is nothing at all to choose between the two morons.
I am wondering if they’ll put the same indeliable ink on the fingers as the one they exported to Afghanistan!
I’ll check and report on that tomorrow.
Do what a close friend does. She gets the list of all the candidates and chooses one who is sure of losing — some bechaara independant or from a party with no base in Bombay like the BSP.
Or register a protest vote. Go, get your nails painted, sign the register and then say “I protest and refuse to vote” — they will have to take your protest.
Yazad, are there statistics available, from past elections, of protest votes?
Do what I did. A shot in the dark. I closed my eye, picked my pen and landed it approximately where i thought the evm was.
First try, it fell down. Second try, it hit the display panel. Third try, bingo. I voted for somebody whom I hated as much as the one below him.
SO all’s well that ends well
No Sameer. No stats available. I do have a strong hunch that if “none of the above” was a choice, it might just win in a few constituencies!
enieos amya.