Smartvote is a campaign supported by different voluntary organizations and citizens, without any political affiliation, created to provide information regarding candidates standing for election at various levels, enabling the public to make an informed choice. Today if we vote for a candidate, we vote for many reasons. Some of these are:
• Strong bias towards a party - ‘We don’t care who the candidate is, I will always vote for Party X’
• Community bias -‘ He belongs to my community, I will vote only for him’
• Anti incumbency vote -‘The ruling party hasn’t done a thing, I will vote for the strongest opposition party'.
“All the wrong reasons.”
If you vote for the party regardless of the quality of the candidate, then there is no incentive for the party to pick a good candidate. We will mostly end up with winnable corrupt candidates. If you vote for someone because of his community then you are encouraging community based politics and you may end up with a non-performer.
You need to vote for the best candidate for the job. Someone with a good biodata....
…maybe a person with a good record of community service.
…or with impeccable honesty.
…or someone with a proven administrative record
Your ‘Smart Vote’ will give our country a great administrator, manager, leader. We at smartvote believe that once we make good people win seats in the parliament, the 'system' has a better chance to correct itself. Parties will ensure good people get tickets and not undeserving candidates that are winnable because they have the support of a certain community or have financial clout to win votes.
We at smartvote will do our best to provide you with in-depth information on candidates so that you can make an informed choice. The data will be mined from that available on the public domain. We aim to collate all the facts and present it in an unbiased user friendly form. By reading about the candidate in our website, we are sure you will make a wise choice. Happy Voting!!
Vision: All the elected representatives in urban India will be elected by citizens making well informed choices. Improving the quality of representatives will lead to good governance of our Country.
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