Human race, under the influence of the almighty God, hunger for spiritual peace, aesthetic satisfying industrial productivity, and productivity allows the sharing of the plentiful rather than fighting over scarcity. It provides tie for spiritual, aesthetic and family matters. It allows society to delegate special skills to institutions of religion, justice, education and preservation of civil liberty.
(John Haughton, 1999) quoted sir, Winston Churchill as saying that democracy is in such a poor state that some suggest financial incentives for voting, as he famously observed, is dimming democratic value. For all the gratifying footage citizens queuing interminably to cast their hard won votes, there is the reality of abysmal turnouts and vote’s apathy. All these, he enumerated; the denial of voting rights, the long queuing and time delay while processing the result, the assault encountered during voting has discourage many form voting, non-conformity of campaign policies by politicians, lack of information management platform and ineffective public awareness can be completely eradicated using internet technology.
Historically, elections have been identified with the rise of democracy. In city of ancient Greece, often cited as example of pure democracies members of the council of state were chosen by lot form a list of candidates from mid of 13th century, the German monarchs and the emperors of Holy Roman Empire were elected by princess of realm who were called electors (Encarta Premium Suite 2004).
In 1888, the first “Australian secret Ballot” was adopted in Massachusetts USA. The “Australian Ballot” is an official Ballot printed at public expense on which the names of all nominated candidates appear. Since that time, numerous other revisions to the voting process have taken place, the most recent of which include the adoption of postcard mail- in voter registration, vote by mail absentee ballots and recent approval of online electoral system (Dan Wallach, 2003).
The World Wide Web was born at CERN (European Laboratory for Nuclear Research) back in 1990. Thanks to its simplicity and user transparency, internet could go a long way beyond the academic world to become part of our daily lives.
Although, we cannot yet foresee its full impact on society we feel that a deeply rooted change is at work. The web closes a cycle of what has been called the “IT revolution” by introducing full interconnectivity and standardizing computer-programming language. It provides direct access to authorities through E-mail or chat sessions (Geneva, 2003).
Under the impulse of the Swiss Federal Government, three cantons began working in the field of online democratic rights. Geneva, Neuchatel and Zurich, In march 2001, the Geneva state council (government) officially launched the online Electoral voting system, which will however replace the existing traditional ballot box and campaign mechanism of political parties (Geneva, 2003).
(Jessica, 2007) stipulates that the advent of social networking, the web connecting people around the globe in particular has potential to some says morph into a powerful tool for analyzing movement and setting political agenda- with the ongoing political atmosphere in united states of America, it looks like is shaping up to the election year of the Internet.
Andrew Rasiej, publisher of Tec president reflects on the emerging role of the Internet as a major political battleground and has continued to erode the candidates’ attempt to control their message and deliver election promises. A look at Hillary Clinton and Obama campaign networks of USA have shown the most interest in incorporating voter generated content and allowing individual supporters to have a presence on their sites. They recognized the fact that voters will turn to the web to make decisions about which candidates to support and therefore, the web offers campaigns to opportunity to engage with far more potential supporters than they could have otherwise reached through traditional media.
The use of the Internet in politics will build a more robust and participatory democracy where the process of being involved in politics will become relevant to voters’ daily life and people will be able to hold their elected leaders more accountable and improved results. Thus, the electoral body and political candidates will recognize that the Internet is a friend not a foe in the sustenance of democracy (Andrew, 2007).
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