Booth Details on SMS in Kerala

[rajan singh]

Voting Booth Details Available on SMS in Kerala
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:07:30 PM (IST)

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=98137&n_tit=Voting+Booth+Details+Available+on+SMS+in+Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram, March 29 (IANS) The Kerala government, in
association with a private IT company, Tuesday introduced a new
service to enable citizens to check their voting place details by
sending an SMS.

The facility is offered by MobME Wireless Solutions, based in
Technopark here, through the mobile governance project of the Kerala
State IT Mission, department of information technology.

To use the service, a voter needs to send the message "ELEVoter ID
number" to 537252. In reply to the SMS, the sender would get details
regarding his or her voter details and the polling booth at which the
vote has to be cast.

The service is available to over 22 million voters in 140
constituencies ahead of the April 13 assembly election. The facility
covers all telecom service providers in the state.

The facility will help end voters' dependence on agents of political
parties to issue voters' slips that mention details about their
polling centre and booth.

"The chief electoral office here, the Alappuzha collectorate and the
Kozhikode collectorate have been provided access to the m-governance
platform for sending election related messages to key officials," said
MobME CEO Sanjay Vijayakumar.

He said the project won the prestigious NASSCOM Innovation Award for
Market Facing Innovation for 2011.

MobME is a key player in the mobile value added services space with
live systems across the length and breadth of the country.