Electronic electoral mandate: advantages and complexities
Electronic mandate has become the accepted national voting process in India. This is considered as a step way forward to the ballot paper vote franchising which was prevalent in the country from many decades. It has completely replaced the later in national as well as provincial elections. The remnants of ballot box voting remain only in small municipal and rural civic body elections known as panchayats in India. The electronic mandate has obvious advantages. They are fast, accurate, economical, convenient, transparent and voter friendly. These are the claimed benefits.