Google today marked the beginning of General Elections in India with a doodle. The Google doodle has an inked finger, when clicked on, leads users to a page that explains the voting procedure.
The interactive doodle page contained information to help the first-time voters in the country.
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The doodle explained the voting process at a polling booth and also gave several details:
*First polling official will check your name on the voter list and check your ID proof
*Second polling official will ink your finger, give you a slip and take your signature on a register (Form 17A)
*You will have to deposit the slip at the third polling official and show your inked finger and then proceed to the polling booth
*Record your vote by pressing the ballot button opposite the symbol of the candidate of your choice on the EVM; You will hear a beep sound
*Check the slip that appears in the transparent window of the VVPAT machine. The slip with the Candidate serial No., Name and Symbol shall be visible for 7 seconds before it drops in the sealed VVPAT box
*You can press NOTA, None of the Above, if you don’t like any candidate; it’s the last button on the EVM.
Voting for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases: April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19. Counting will be done on May 23.
Ninety-one Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 states and two Union Territories will go to polls today in the first-phase.
The states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Telangana will vote today in a single phase. Voting will also be held in parts of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
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