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India: Chawla says compulsory voting idea not feasible, India Today (2010)

As the Gujarat state election commission made voting in their panchayat elections compulsory, the Chief Election Commissioner, Navin Chawla, rejected this idea on the national scale. The Election Commission has proposed some other electoral reforms though, most of which require amendments to the Representation of the People's Act. One of the most significant proposals relates to debarring people with criminal history from contesting elections. All of the proposed changes are now examined by the Parliament's standing committee.

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