We can vote only if our name exists in the Electoral list (Media quote: "Mother of all frauds") and possess an EPIC. There is a huge influx of applications for registering names and for obtaining EPIC but the system does not appear to have geared up to such a demand, despite best efforts by EC officials and spending hours together has become a pain in the neck.  Still we must have patience and see that our names are entered in the electoral list and we will not have the syndrome of our name being not there, when we go to cast our votes.

My experience in Mysore and from various media reports, in Bengaluru also people are having difficult time:

Browse:  http://mysorenext.com - I want my name in the voter list.... "  After posting these photos and after the Election Officials watched a VFC, the police were called and two persons were arrested. But Mysore DEO has even introduced mobile EPIC facility in which digital cameras have been installed and those who have submitted their applications can still get their EPICs till 15th April 2009. 

Many have been experiencing the pain and the agony of going through the official processes...but they are still standing in the que with all the patience to get the EPIC.  Good. Augurs well for democracy. EC has done well in Bellary where tens of thousands of spurious applications for inclusion of names have been rejected.

VOTE WE MUST FOR POSTERITY OF DEMOCRACY.

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Correction: As I understand, EPIC is not necessary to vote - any government issues photo ID (passport, driving license etc.) should be OK. However, name in Electorial list is a must.

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 I looked up in Dictionary for the word posterity.

pos·ter·i·ty   (p -st r -t )

n.

1. Future generations: "Everything he writes is consigned to posterity" Joyce Carol Oates.

2. All of a person's descendants.

Let us vote for the success of (current Avtar of) Democracy.

PSA

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Current Avtaar is afflicted with AIDS:

AIDS

A larmingly

I  nfected

D emocratic

S  ystem

But this AIDS is curable - by injecting VOTE VACCINE - by Democratic Doctors         - the Voters

Why posterity?

We, some of us, the elders became disgusted and were not responsible enough to correct the decaying system that was spread at the root of democratcy.  We allowed them to happen.  Now we know that rotting has to be stopped through online correction to the system instead of WYSIWYG.

All of us have some responsibility to the society we are living in - so, let us start laying the foundation for corrections for 'posterity (n) - for the sake of our children and grand children so that they need not repeat the mistakes of their elders who, otherwise, have left a legacy of most unwanted vices in the name of democracy.

- I am a deadly optimist and an old man in a hurry - Yes We Can.

-Vasanth Mysoremath 

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 The meaning one conveys by referring “Posterity of Democracy” is the “children” of democracy (Current Avtar of) of today. Here as the meaning to be conveyed refers to our children and grand children that is our posterity not Posterity (children) of Democracy. My reference for Democracy (as current Avtar) of to day was just to emphasize the next Avtars as children of current Democracy. Sorry I did not realize it in time that it would be so difficult to understand. English is such a versatile language, so easy to type even with one finger and has a vide audience, on this globe.

PSA

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