‘Will You Vote’..The Survey Results

The results of the exclusive survey “Will You Vote” promoted by TechnoparkToday through Technopark-related discussion forums and e-mail forwards, is finally out.  The survey was intended to know the views of Technopark employees about the current politics and upcoming assembly election.

Only 63 percent said they will vote this election. When 20 percent said they won’t vote this time, 17 percent are yet to decide.  Surprisingly, 46 percent hate politics while 54 percent don’t.  Ninety percent have voter’s ID card and the remaining 10 percent are yet to apply for the same.

Another major question raised in the survey was whether they favour a ‘none of the above’ option in the electronic voting machine. Interestingly, 63 percent do not want the candidates offered by the parties and are in favour of ‘none of the above’ option.   61 percent oppose regional parties which do not have a say in the national level.

Some interesting comments appeared in the survey are as follows:

• Itz just the question of choosing the lesser of the two evils.

• All the old people from the parties should be either sent to home or sent to any old age homes. The country should be given to the hands of the youth. Only then India will succeed.

• I prefer there should be a tracking system meant for tracking the development of activities in each month.  Kind of review meeting assessing the performance of the government at the end of the month and this should be disclosed to public through media.

• The system is corrupted itself. I am not interested to vote and screw me up!

• Vote is the right and responsibility of a citizen . Vote is a strong tool for the common man in the democracy. Use it wisely.

• Instead of making promises for the next election, the politicians and parties need to refer theprogress of their previous promises (that were met and not met). In addition to the promises, they should highlight the current situations (developments) in the state like water scarcity, road condition etc. Based on this info, the people should be able to make a convincing decision.

• There should be provision to vote for non contesting leaders whom we believe can help us to save this nation.

• Existing Government will return to power miraculously.

• I will support the political party, which will fuel the development of the country not controversies
• I have voters id card, I have voted in the past elections. But this time my name is removed from the voters list. Inspite of my repeated efforts to add my name to the list, it is not added. I am not getting proper information on why my name is not added to voters list. I am keen to vote but without my name in voters list, how can I vote?

• no way….suffering is our fate.

• WE NEEDS LDF GOVERNMENTS FOR COMPLETING THE IT REVOLUTION.NO OTHER GOVERNMENT HAVE IDEAS ABOUT IT.

• We need change. we don’t want to vote for who have been cheating us by years

• Let it be any party, nothing will change. I will vote because, there should be a change at least in the ruling party. The serving term should be reduced to 2 or at least 3 years for any change to occur.

• Election should be conducted in Friday, Sat, Sun or Monday

• The idea of providing voting right to NRIs is welcoming. I have applied for including me and my family members name in the voters list. Hopefully these applications will be accepted based on the new developments for NRI’s can vote.

• Politics should be seen as a way to serve the country/region not a s a way of thickening ones’s pockets.  In kerala, even the basic infrastructure is so bad. Bad Roads, Dirty Environments, Corruption everywhere especially in Corporation offices etc, Files seem to be stuck for ever. people working in Govt. offices seem to think it is our responsibility to get the file moved. As a result people look for better places to live on and move abroad. The loser is our country and our people as most of our talented people work for foreign countries and foreign companies.

• I do support more independents and smaller but effective parties to come up in elections.

• Keralites are much matured than the other states as they give turns to every party, of course except the BJP(otherwise Kerala will become Gujarat in no time). Of course the problem with this system is that the ruling party knows its tenure beforehand and will dedicate most of the time to filling its coffers in the limited time of 5 years rather than doing anything good for the people.

• LDF will come again/

• Why should I spare my valuable time which I can utilize for other things that might benefit me to vote when it is either this Devil or that Demon??!!!
• Democracy is a shame especially in india. There is scam starting from the sweepers to the judiciary. There are loopholes everywhere. India has become a place where politicians makes laws for themselves..

• I hate corrupt politicians and politics.

• It is not politics that is bad, but politicians.

• The mindset of people of kerala has to change.After Every 5 years they are selecting the opposition party thinking that they will be better.This is happening every year.

• Indian politicians are waste

• None of the above option should be provided

• I will give my vote only for V.S.