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Lemon Camera, The Election Commission Of India And The 10th General Election In Manipur
Morung Express | Dr. Kateipfona | Leimakhong, Feb 20
The 10th General Election in Manipur saw the use of lemon mobile handsets for capturing the image of voters. This innovation was presumably introduced to prevent proxy voting. But this half baked idea is now the centre of a storm that will leave the Election Commission of India dumfounded. The state of Manipur has been used as a guinea pig and the surgery which was attempted with such a sloppy and ill conceived mechanism has resulted with grave potentials for the future of democracy.
A critique on the issue is furnished as follows -
1. Digital cameras were not used and the questionable quality of the lemon mobile handset selected for the purpose presumably was done in order to cut down cost. Many of the images were blurred either due to poor lighting or camera quality. The image quality were reported to be, in some cases so poor so much so that it could not be made out if the image is of a male or a female or that of a young or old person.
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