We wish to contribute our bit to enable people to use indian language technology for an important democratic activity i.e. access to voter lists. We shall look at the situation in Maharashtra to start with. Maharashtra is typical case like any other state in the country. Perhaps rolls here are better maintained and perhaps the authorities here are genuinely interested in sharing the information with the public.

Objective:

Through the voterlist, we wish to strengthen the hands of the Election Commission and its state level offices, the statutory body orchestrating the great dance of democracy . We also believe that the citizen must be given due rights and respect as compared to what the official machinery can presently afford. With due respect to the genuine desire on the part of dedicated bureacrats and lower level staff, the very size of the problem is beyond non-computer interface. The irony is that data has been computersied and is in indian language but there is no provision in the system for public interface to data in indian language. This also affects the smoothness and efficiency of the verification and registration process .We believe that GNU/Linux free software , localised in all indian languages and unicode standard alone provide the affordable universal interface. These will provide access to people who wish to work with computers loaded with proprietory software just as well as those who wish to use free software.

Ultimate Objective :

Voterlist will be only a starting point to ultimately generalise the indian language enabled e-governance initiatives. At least 98% of the indian people are waiting for this to happen.

Click Here to read a document describing features of the search module. (last updated on 30th August 2004)

Download:
Latest stable version is 0.5

Note:- Currently only on GNU/Linux. MicrosoftWindows version is for the coming Most of the Source code is already cross platform.

You can download entire source code tarball here (md5sum: da6b7d25fafd205dffdeaf913fed9f50)
( For extracting the files after downloading you need to use command :
tar xvfj vl2-0.5.20040901.tar.bz2 on the command terminal)

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