INDIA / ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES

An estimated 830 million voters inIndia’s national elections are exercising their right to vote in the country. Their vote is being secured through over a million electronic voting machines. The machines are seen as a way to ensure elections are fair, efficient, inclusive and environment-friendly.  UNDP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:21
• Production Date: 29 April 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Geographic Subject: INDIA
• MAMS Id: U140429e

Description

STORY: INDIA / ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES
TRT: 2:21
SOURCE: UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16-17 April 2014, BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA

Shotlist

1. Close up, banner - Model Polling Station, Welcome
2. Med shot, voters and women police personnel out side the polling booth
3. Wide shot, men standing in a queue waition to cast votes
4. Close up, postal ballot box
5. Med shot, Namibian delegates walking past the camera
6. Wide shot, Namibian delegates taking their seats at the model polling station
7. Med shot, women polling officer explaining the process to the delegates
8. Close up, notepad
9. Wide shot, government officials working
10. Close up, list of government officials to be deployed
11. Close up, government officials
12. Close up, Banner English and Hindi
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Akshay Rout, Director General, Election Commission of India:
“We all will get chance to be exposed to each others Electoral System in future times. And the thing which had started to day, in fact it had started before because friends from your country have, your colleagues have come and seen our electronic voting machine and you have procured it, so we have a connection there.”
12. Wide shot, crowd of govt. officials, police personnel waiting to be deployed to their respective oiling stations
13. Close up, Billboard- Bharat Electronics showing electronic voting machine
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Marilyn Ines Vekondoroka Katjitundu, Chief Information Officer, Election Commission of Namibia:
“Actually, the thing that strikes me the most is the knowledge that the voters have in terms of the use of electronic voting machine and the pride that they take in voting. It seems like every Indian eligible voter is so proud to go out and cast these votes.”
15. Wide shot, women waiting in a queue to cast their vote
16. Wide shot, men and women waiting in a queue
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicodemus Mingelius, Chief System Administrator:
“The people are trained, they know how to use the electronic voting machine. I personally asked the people that we met that whether they have ever experienced any technical problems, when it comes to the electronic voting machines and with confidence they said no, they haven’t seen. They only think maybe that could happen that battery is running low. For me that is amazing, and that gives me more confidence that the electronic voting machines that we have adapted based on the Indian system, is going to work for Namibia.”
18. Wide shot, Namibian delegates
19. Wide shot, government officials
20. Close up, Electoral Commission of Namibia shirt

Storyline

An estimated 830 million voters in India’s national elections are exercising their right to vote in the country. Their vote is being secured through over a million electronic voting machines. The machines are seen as a way to ensure elections are fair, efficient, inclusive and environment-friendly.

A delegation from Namibia’s Election Commission is visiting Karnataka in the South of the country to learn more about how electronic voting can be an important tool in Namibia’s forthcoming general elections.

India’s Election Commission and the United Nations Development Programme are facilitating the visit of Namibia and other countries from the South, to learn how India’s managing the largest elections the world has ever seen.

In a debriefing session with the delegates, The Director General of Election Commission of India, Mr. Akshay Rout said that, “We all will get chance to be exposed to each others Electoral System in future times. And the thing which had started to day, in fact it had started before because friends from your country have, your colleagues have come and seen our electronic voting machine and you have procured it, so we have a connection there. So we look forward, we see it as a continuing process.”

Namibia recently procured Electronic voting machines from an Indian manufacturer Bharat Electronics limited and poised to graduate to an Electronic Ballot system, for there Presidential elections in November.

Namibian Delegate, Marilyn Iren Vekondoroka Katjitundu,Chief Information Officer, Election Commission of Namibia, said in her Interview, “ Actually, the thing that strikes me the most is the knowledge that the voters have in terms of the use of electronic voting machine and the pride that they take in voting. It seems like every Indian eligible voter is so proud to go out and cast these votes”.

Namibian Delegate, Nicodemus Mingelius, Chief System Administrator says, “The people are trained, they know how to use the electronic voting machine. I personally asked the people that we met that whether they have ever experienced any technical problems, when it comes to the electronic voting machines and with confidence they said no, they haven’t seen. They only think maybe that could happen that battery is running low. For me that is amazing, and that gives me more confidence that the electronic voting machines that we have adapted based on the Indian system, is going to work for Namibia.”