India: Women Staff Roped in to Curb Bogus Voting
This civic election, for the first time, women officials and police constables will be posted at the city’s 8,395 polling booths for verification of women wearing burqas.
This decision of the state election commission is aimed at reducing the chances of bogus voting.
“It has been a long-standing demand for a woman officer to be posted at polling booths as men cannot verify the credentials of burqa-clad women. Also, in ‘sensitive’ polling booths, male officers find difficult to handle the situation because of the religious sentiments,” said a civic official from the election department.
Read the complete story at Daily News & Analysis, published January 28, 2012.
This civic election, for the first time, women officials and police constables will be posted at the city’s 8,395 polling booths for verification of women wearing burqas.
This decision of the state election commission is aimed at reducing the chances of bogus voting.
“It has been a long-standing demand for a woman officer to be posted at polling booths as men cannot verify the credentials of burqa-clad women. Also, in ‘sensitive’ polling booths, male officers find difficult to handle the situation because of the religious sentiments,” said a civic official from the election department.
Read the complete story at Daily News & Analysis, published January 28, 2012.