voting is real simple. visit the booth , take sighted help along, fill a simple form for the disabled, excersise your voting rights, and thats it. so go and vote
On 2/20/09, Subramani L <lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in> wrote: > I had been voting in Chennai, until I relocated to Bangalore. Last > general election has been the only one I missed. Let's see if I can get > my voter registration and vote this time. > > Subramani > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in > [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pamnani > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 5:39 AM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: [AI] Elections > > Hi I am starting this topic taking off from Rajesh and Sudhir's comments > on the disabled being a class and that we do not vote. Cynics that we > pride ourselves to be have to now adopt a new tact.So get out of being > arm chair critics and commentators. > Elections are around the corner and we all must vote. How you vote is > not my concern but vote you must. > Yes I am disabled so it is difficult for me to vote- getting someone to > go with me to the booth, reading the names of the candidates, actually > voting and then answering the questions of others and a bunch of other > difficulties instead of enjoying my holiday. > However if you dont go see what damage you will do: 1. The Bombay, > Jharkhand High courts andthe Supreme court have ordered special > facilities for the disabled. So please use them and dont waste them. > 2.The Election Commission has constantly taken a stand that there are > not many disabled who vote so we have to prove the EC wrong. this helps > in making the facilities better for the next elections. > 3. You are part of the numbers that make up a class so if we are a big > class we get privileges in due course. Ensure that it is recorded that > you are disabled when you vote. > 4. If you want to be part of Society and you want to be treated as a > part then do what everyone should be doing-voting. > 5. We are educated and the part of the educated middle class that > should rule but with our own apathy we lose our clout. Therefore we get > the government we deserve. > There may be several other reasons which I cant seem to remember this > early in the morning. > This year I hope not to hear from anybody on accessindia that they have > not voted. Whats the point in being cynical about others including the > government isnt it time we face ourselves and tried to push ourselves on > this front as well. > > Kanchan > > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i > n > > Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
