Chhattisgarh

• 18 Nov 2023

‘Voter Turnout App’

Why in News?

According to the information received from the media on November 16, 2023, in view of the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, the updated status of voting percentage can be obtained on November 17 through the Election Commission of India's mobile application 'Voter Turnout App'.

Key Points

• This application has been launched by the Election Commission of India to increase citizen participation in elections and to provide instant information about voter turnout on the voting day.
• The Election Commission has launched 'Voter Turnout App' for the first time in the assembly elections. With this, any person will be able to easily know the voting percentage of any assembly constituency. Earlier, this app was used for the first time in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It was launched on April 18, 2019.
• Voter Turnout App is used to display real time voter turnout details including Male, Female and Third Gender in each Assembly Constituency/Parliamentary Constituency. This app can be used by citizens to capture live voter turnout data.
• The Voter Turnout app allows citizens to get information about the estimated voter turnout for each state separately. The app also allows users to share voting percentage with their contacts via Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and WhatsApp. That means any person can share the percentage of real-time voting in his social media account.
• No data can be pre-fed in the Voter Turnout App. The Voter Turnout App is designed to show estimated voter turnout for each state and can be used up to the district and assembly constituency level. On the day of voting, state wise, district wise and assembly constituency wise voter turnout updates can be seen.