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BENGALURU:
A whopping 83.61% of respondents who voted successful the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections successful Karnataka person shown a beardown level of trust in the electoral process and Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), according to a caller survey commissioned by Karnataka’s the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).
The bulk of respondents crossed each divisions believed that elections successful India are conducted successful a escaped and just manner, with 91.31% agreeing, which includes 6.76% being neutral, it said.
The caller survey covered 5,100 respondents across 34 predetermination districts covering 102 Assembly constituencies successful the administrative divisions of Bengaluru, Belagavi, Kalaburagi and Mysuru.
The survey, which was commissioned by State’s Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbukumar, said the highest number of respondents who trusted EVMs was successful the Kalaburagi part – 83.24%. In this division, the Congress made a cleanable expanse successful the 2024 Parliamentary polls. The spot successful the electoral process and EVMs was 70.67% successful the Mysuru division, 63.90% successful the Belagavi part and 63.67% successful the Bengaluru division.
High numbers voted
The survey titled “Lok Sabha Elections 2024 — Evaluation of Endline Survey of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Citizens” was conducted to measure the result of the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme. It reflected beardown antiauthoritarian engagement, with 95.75% of respondents reporting that they voted. While consciousness of elector lists was precocious (85.31%), knowing of online registration, location voting, and grievance mechanisms remained limited.
Findings besides revealed precocious levels of EPIC possession (99.02%) and elector database inclusion (98.18%), though gaps existed successful consciousness astir the elector registration process, particularly successful Bengaluru.
Digital level usage among voters was low, with lone 18.37% accessing election-related websites oregon apps. Booth-level serviceman (BLO) visits were the astir communal mode for elector enrolment (47.21%), it said.
Knowing EPIC
Overall consciousness of the Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) is considerably precocious crossed each divisions, with 90.1% of the full respondents stating that they are alert of it. Mysuru part leads with the highest consciousness astatine 96.08%, followed by the Kalaburagi part astatine 94.10% and the Belagavi part astatine 93.33%. In contrast, the Bengaluru part reports the lowest consciousness level astatine 81.89%, with a comparatively higher proportionality of respondents (10.06%) stating they are not alert and 8.06% uncertain.
It said the bulk of respondents crossed each divisions judge that their knowing of the close to ballot is true, reported by 84.78% overall.
A full of 95.75% of respondents reported they voted successful the 2024 elections. The superior factors influencing elector prime included campaigner merit, enactment reputation, and idiosyncratic integrity. Long queues (51.21%) were reported arsenic the astir communal trouble successful the voting process.
Political reactions
In his station connected X, State BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra said the survey had “exposed” the Congress ‘vote chori’ campaign. He called it “a nonstop stroke to @RahulGandhi”, who, incapable to judge @INCIndia’s repeated electoral failures, had launched a “reckless run casting doubts connected the EC.”
However, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took to X to rebut these claims. In a six-point rejoinder pointing to assorted factors, including the administrative intent of the survey, its timing and illustration size helium said, “Over the past 24 hours, an Election Commission survey has been selectively utilized to manufacture a misleading communicative — suggesting that superior concerns astir electoral malpractice raised by Rahul Gandhi are someway disproved.” He said that “a limited, pre-event administrative survey cannot hide transgression evidence, chargesheets, oregon unanswered questions”.
In a property conference, Congress person B.K. Hariprasad alleged that the survey was commissioned done the government-linked agencies and not an autarkic law oregon judicial body.
“The Election Commission is astatine its lowest ebb successful presumption of its credibility. So they privation to physique up their image...If the Election Commission wants to amended oregon physique its image, determination should beryllium transparency. They should beryllium impartial. They should perceive to the governmental parties oregon the electoral representatives...”, helium told reporters here.
