Musings – Abhay S. Kushwaha

I cast my first vote ever today.

A citizen becomes eligible for voting on attaining the age of 18. It has been 8 years since and in the numerous elections that have gone by, I’ve not been able to vote because I was not a registered voter. This time, when the Assembly (State) elections came along, I was on the voter’s list.

I went over in the afternoon and cast my vote. It was an electronic voting machine and it took about 2 minutes for the whole process: I go in, give my voter’s slip, show my ID, sign in to get the voter card, get my finger marked, hand over the voter card to the voting machine technician to enable a vote, go over to the enclosure, scan the list of candidates, press the button, look at the red light and listen to the beep to announce a successful vote, ask the technician in bewilderment if that’s all there is to it, shake my head slightly in amazement, and walk out.

😀

It was new. It was nice. It will never feel the same. One word: Wow.