I happened to see the movie RECOUNT recently, in which the lead role is played by Kevin Spacey(as Ron Clain). The movie is about US Predential election in 2000, George W.Bush Vs. Al Gore. The movie unfolds the legal drama which happened during the recount in Florida and how the Supreme Court of USA ruled against any recount over-ruling Florida supreme court's order.
I never had much interest in world politics, let alone America. All I remember of 2000 elections was that people and news channels telling that Al Gore won the election, but Bush got the post. The entirely and completely true.
The movie is taken well. The facts of the situation is amazingly clear even though these are legal proceedings. To quote a dialogue from the movie, towards the end we hear Al Gore saying that " I can't win even if i have really won" asking his team to give up in legal battle for the Recount after the Supreme Court's order.
But my take out from the movie after appreciating the screenplay was, how much am i really involved in the politics of my country. Do I even bother who is going to come in the next elections? Well in America you will never get elected if u are divorced. Hmm thats coming from a country which has a divorce rate of 50% in first marriage(yeah there are different rates for the second and third marriage also- that can be a study done in silo).After this Lok Sabha elections only i came to know that we can vote in our constituency even if we are not physically present.
Frankly i did not know about this before the elections. I came to know this from my collegue at office. Ofcourse it was my mistake that i did not seek our or try to find out how to vote when i am not present. But i also told my friend why dint he ever take the intiatiate to inform friends about the process that is available, but that there has been so many forwards everyday about some helpline which does not work, some small girl dying in somalia and asking to forward the mail to 10 other people, and many such mails which nowadays which go into the junk folder.
However I am yet to find the way to do that before next elections. First avenue to check was the internet. The election commission site does not offer any clarifications or provisions for the same. My next place will be to stop at the nearest election commission office.
Data that is published and is to be noted is that, the voter turnout is 59-60% this year, and 63% for US. So i think we are similar in that aspect at least. But I dont think we know how the whole electrol process is being conducted in our country. We high-and-mighty-corporate guys don't bother vote(that includes me also- if people are doing it i applaud them). Are we sure that your vote is not cast by someone else? Are we sure that our vote is not misused?
Frankly I know that we have less choices in terms of political parties. We can vote to people who steal as well do something for the country as against people who only steal. Thats the utmost decision we can make in this political scenario. Or cast a invalid vote which ensure our vote is not misplaced and people who have done their due diligence are actually getting the results which they wanted. Thus we can atleast help people who are actively involved in what they want in their government.
I never had much interest in world politics, let alone America. All I remember of 2000 elections was that people and news channels telling that Al Gore won the election, but Bush got the post. The entirely and completely true.
The movie is taken well. The facts of the situation is amazingly clear even though these are legal proceedings. To quote a dialogue from the movie, towards the end we hear Al Gore saying that " I can't win even if i have really won" asking his team to give up in legal battle for the Recount after the Supreme Court's order.
But my take out from the movie after appreciating the screenplay was, how much am i really involved in the politics of my country. Do I even bother who is going to come in the next elections? Well in America you will never get elected if u are divorced. Hmm thats coming from a country which has a divorce rate of 50% in first marriage(yeah there are different rates for the second and third marriage also- that can be a study done in silo).After this Lok Sabha elections only i came to know that we can vote in our constituency even if we are not physically present.
Frankly i did not know about this before the elections. I came to know this from my collegue at office. Ofcourse it was my mistake that i did not seek our or try to find out how to vote when i am not present. But i also told my friend why dint he ever take the intiatiate to inform friends about the process that is available, but that there has been so many forwards everyday about some helpline which does not work, some small girl dying in somalia and asking to forward the mail to 10 other people, and many such mails which nowadays which go into the junk folder.
However I am yet to find the way to do that before next elections. First avenue to check was the internet. The election commission site does not offer any clarifications or provisions for the same. My next place will be to stop at the nearest election commission office.
Data that is published and is to be noted is that, the voter turnout is 59-60% this year, and 63% for US. So i think we are similar in that aspect at least. But I dont think we know how the whole electrol process is being conducted in our country. We high-and-mighty-corporate guys don't bother vote(that includes me also- if people are doing it i applaud them). Are we sure that your vote is not cast by someone else? Are we sure that our vote is not misused?
Frankly I know that we have less choices in terms of political parties. We can vote to people who steal as well do something for the country as against people who only steal. Thats the utmost decision we can make in this political scenario. Or cast a invalid vote which ensure our vote is not misplaced and people who have done their due diligence are actually getting the results which they wanted. Thus we can atleast help people who are actively involved in what they want in their government.
