COMPLETE VOTING SOLUTION IN YOUR

MOBILE

Best Electoral Practices Awards-2014

 Innovations in Use of IT technology/Voters Education and Electoral ParticipationSonali Giri ,ADEO

Bathinda

Why a mobile application??

Urban population forms 82% of the total mobile internet users- 153 Mn out of 185 Mn

Out of 153 Mn urban users Approx 67% are Smartphone users

iVote – Need of the Hour

E-governance -ultimate act of empowerment for the people

Most of the present day voters are young and quite tech-savvy

1.79 lakh New voters (approx)in each Parliamentary constituency. Of them, about 24 % in the 18-19 age group

Use of mobile technology becomes imperative in any SVEEP activity

Rise of social media's importance can be utilized as an incentive to leverage the initiatives

With the elections process under way- much need to reach to more voters through all means

iVote signifies Individual’s

assertion over his/her right of voting as in “I VOTE”

It also signifies that INDIA VOTES

It explains the internet base of its utility features as in “iPhone/iPad”

What is iVote ?

Android based user friendly mobile application

Various Election related utility features like

Directions to the one’s polling booth, information about contesting candidates

EPIC based customisation and E-voting Slip Knowing about the Candidates Info A comprehensive model code of conduct for

ready reference An easy complaint submission mechanism Live Election Results

Utility Features

iVote currently features 6 different utility features

1. E-Voter Slip

2. Map2Booth

3. Candidate Affidavit

4. Model Code of Conduct

5. Complaint

6. Live Election Results

Map2booth

User can select District from menu and type in polling booth no. Press “get directions” tab.

Using the mobile’s GPS location /coordinates from the database, find exact directions to booth and also navigate through the route

Helpful to young first time voters -finding the booth a pleasurable exercise

Female voters don't have to depend on anyone to guide them to their polling booths

Candidate Affidavit

To Help the voters to make informed choice

Most of the time the Candidate’ s information critical information is not that readily available to voters

User can see the Affidavit (form 26) filed by any candidate in a particular parliamentary constituency during nomination process

Model Code of Conduct

Ready reference of Model of Conduct guidelines for the political parties and candidates are displayed

If required more informative material regarding Form 6, Form7, Form 8,Form 8A can also be preloaded

Complaint Registration

Complaint registration process –need to be very simplistic one

One has to just write his name, email id and details of complaint and send it to authorities as the contact details of the complaint centre for various districts already pre-fed

Even if one wants to attach any pictures then can use the ATTACH feature with his/her complaint

EPIC based Customization

To generate e-Voter Slip,

Go directly to voter’s unique polling booth location

Display candidates of voter’s constituency only

NO requirement of submitting district name in complaint submission

Mobile number can be verified and can be used to send election relevant information

Live Election Results

Live Counting trends for Nation-Wise, State/Constituency-wise and Party wise results

Can be selected in advance /delivered via timely push notifications or as ticker on his mobile screen

Launch & User Response

Despite the late start ,There were total 75,516 potential users as on 05th June, 2014

First milestone achieved within 8 days of launchwith 10,000 downloads by 24th April, 2014

As on 25th May, 2014 the total actual downloads for iVotewere25,494

Positive mouth publicity-many people from other countries have also browsed through the application

Mainly countries with siginificant Punjabi Diaspora as USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Indonesia etc.

Positive response to iVote

iVote was reviewed by 647 users out of the total users

Out of these 537 reviews (more than 85 %) were very encouraging and are positive (Four stars or above)

People, who reviewed the application praised the application for its Simplicity, Functionality, user interface and overall user experience.

User reviews / Limitations

User Suggestions Limitations

Totally Funded through Donations under CSRTechnical/ Creative Inputs /support through private company on pro bono basisCertain features such as printing/saving option for the voter slip generated by iVote Search option of name based search for EPIC ID- to be launched recently Features were server dependent /old version of server has delayed inclusion of these features

Way Forward-Ultimate solution

Pre-election purposes such as new voter registration, deletion of name, change of address or other information

During Election needs such as knowledge of contesting candidates, knowing model code of conduct and easy complaint mechanism

On Voting day needs such as e-Voter Slip and Map2booth

Scope of iVote

Way Forward-Ultimate Solution

Small utilities such as optional countdown timer for voting day which gives weekly, daily and hourly notifications for voting

Tag My Vote/Ability to poke social network contacts on their voting days so as to urge them to go out and vote

Increase the Fun Experience as well utility to the voters.

Form number 06, 07 and 08 should be integrated and made available vide this application

Single stop solution for all the basic needs of a voter (or prospective voter).

MiscellaneousForm 06, 07 and 08

Technical Details

Android 2.1 and above

Polling location /booth wise latitude –longitude coordinates of all the parliamentary constituencies in Microsoft excel sheet format.

Call centre details viz. Email id, phone, address

Voter EPIC detail stating their name , constituency and polling booth in Microsoft excel format

Mobile app compatibility Data Requirements

Thank you

Ideation by Sonali Giri & Vipul UjwalADEO CommissionerBathinda ,Pb. Bathinda Municipal Corp.

Technical SupportDigital sorcerer's Technologies & Manish AugustNew Delhi Bhatt

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