2008 Karnataka Assembly - election results

tsubba - 25-MAY-2008

Worst case scenario - Deve Gowda as king maker

mcadambi - 21-MAY-2008

How is 18% for majority!?

silkboard - 11-MAY-2008

After casting my vote early in the morning yesterday, while I drove around and was doing some shopping, I was curiously trying to spot the ink on those index fingers. My empirical observations told me that less than 50% of people had taken the trouble of visiting a polling booth. Morning newspapers are saying that Bangalore city areas saw only 44% voter turnout, and I am not surprised.

With three cornered (four, if you add BSP) contests everywhere, it is safe to assume that winning candidate will at best get 35-40% of the votes polled. 40% (winning percentage) of 44% (voting percentage) = around 18%. So, the winning candidates can realistically claim to have support of only 18% of Bangalore's citizens.

Baby Steps: A Perspective on Voting

FatimaAlloo - 7-MAY-2008

If you have ever observed a child in your family or friends’ circle grow up, it may sometimes seem ridiculous when everyone rejoices when he/she stands up for the first time and successfully puts one little foot in front of the other. Of course, this is usually followed by the little one immediately falling to the floor and crawling away. But are you discouraged? Do you think to yourself, “Wow, just one small step? She is never going to walk! How will she ever run?” Needless to say, most of us are aware that walking, let alone running, is a process – a skill that is developed one baby-step at a time.

Subversion of democratic process

murali772 - 4-MAY-2008

The SEC/ NIC/ BBMP combo, entrusted with the job of preparation and maintenance of the electoral rolls and issual of the EPID cards, has once again proved itself unequal to the task. The resulting inaccuracy levels of the order of over 50% across the state, is causing serious subversion of the democratic process.

What do you know about the candidates in your constituency?

roshanrk - 23-APR-2008

Political parties have come out with the list of candidates for various constituencies. How much do we know about them? As for me, I know only the name of the BJP candidate from Rajarajeshwari Nagar constituency. No idea about other candidates or what any of them have done or plan to do for the constituency.

Elections, Voter ID FAQ

admin123 - 21-APR-2008

Instead of duplicating similar material here, just wanted to point over to some resources over Internet (and phone):

Bangalore - the importance to Elections

mcadambi - 17-APR-2008

I attended an internal seminar with the BJP today evening. One prominent leader informed me that Bangalore and surrounding

constituencies have a total of 36 Assembly seats. Hence, any party which wins Bangalore by a large margin will win the entire state.

Here is an interview:

http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/17inter.htm

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Bangaloreing voters' list review

murali772 - 23-JAN-2008

I was quite excited to read the caption 'Voters' list review Bangalored' in your columns this morning (23rd Jan). However, on going through the text, I was disappointed to find that what was proposed hardly amounted to 'Bangaloreing', going by the general understanding of the term.

How democratic are we?

blrsri - 18-JAN-2008

When we were talking about the KL monorail, one of the other most glaring topics on monorail came up to my mind. This was about the Seattle monorail. This was voted out by the public of Seattle. Financial reasons was stated as the reason. Again when I was in Boston, a Bangladeshi lady came to me for a signature campaign. She needed this to set up a hotel in Boston. Why arent we using this in the biggest democracy in the world? Shouldnt we use the public opinion more for implimenting something?