In the recent years Information Technology (IT) has transformed our life. There are enormous changes in the way information is collected, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed. These developments in information technology (IT) provide a great amount of opportunities for both government and the non-government to rethink their operational aspects. IT has metamorphosed as new model of governance, adaptive to a electronic, global knowledge based, digital economy from a huge government, centralized, hierarchical and operating in a physical economy.

Electronic Governance has emerged as one of the flagship applications with aspiration to employ the latest technology like multimedia and network technologies to re-invent the way the government works normally. Although the opportunities are exciting, there are also significant challenges to making new technology and ideas work. Two of the key challenges are coping with the investment of time, resources, and stress to put changes in place, and dealing with the need for wide collaboration and cooperation, especially in a government context. This paper enumerates in detail how the electronic governance shall be utilized in the election sector.

Election System 

Democracy's mystique is as powerful for its adherents while watching a village elect its headman as in a nation electing its parliament. However, the sheer scale of India's five-yearly exercise of renewing the people's mandate is stupefying...620 million voters, a million-plus polling booths spread over nearly 30-odd states divided on the basis of language, six major religions, a vertical division into thousands of castes and sub-castes, with one in two adults illiterate but all keen to exercise their franchise, 

The election always have an endemic violence, meaning military and police forces have to be shifted from end to end of the three million sq km landmass, in a month-long exercise...it is a spectacle the scale of which is unrivalled the world over. India is a vast country. This is evident during elections. Due to the logistics involved in moving security forces from one place to another, actual voting is usually staggered across two-three weeks nowadays. This is to ensure that all the trigger-happy goons out to wreck a polling booth are kept under check.

Nearly 30 per cent of the Rs 800-1000 crore spent on the elections goes into manufacturing and printing of ballot papers. According to EC estimates, a minimum of 2,000 tonnes of paper is required for printing ballot papers and poll related material . That is why the EC requires a minimum of 75 days to prepare for elections. What the EC also requires is large doses of imagination as well. There are scores of candidates in a state and each of them must have a separate symbol with which the voter will identify him or her on the ballot paper. So in a constituency where there are over 300 candidates, one can imagine what the voter has to undergo. Now, however, the EC is gradually introducing Electronic Voting Machines, which should drastically reduce the paper consumption.

The statistics for the General Election's 99 :

Electors	620394065
Votes Cast(537 )	36687765
Polling %	59.81

Voting is Much Simpler:
Believe it or not, in some Lok-Sabha constituencies across the country, all the votes that casted shall be valid votes. It's not that all the voters have suddenly become very cautious and alert. But, the new electronic Voting machines will not permit a voter to cast an invalid vote.


Instantaneous Results
Once voting is over, the presiding officer will lock the machine by merely pressing a 'Close' button. If the presiding officer so desires, at anytime of the voting process, he can find out how many voters have exercised their franchise by merely pressing a button 'Total'. Similarly, to know the result, a 'Result' button has to be pressed. The machine will show the number of candidates, total number of votes cast (on that machine) and votes polled by each candidate. The final result can be calculated (manually) by totaling the votes polled by each candidate on each machine. 

This push-button technology will ensure that the counting process is over in a few hours, unlike the longer periods a manual counting normally entails. There are other advantages too. The data on the machine can be saved since, as per the law, the records have to be kept for a certain prescribed period. To clear it the officer has to merely press a 'Clear' button. The machine is built up in such a manner that all these buttons can be covered and sealed to avoid any tampering or accidental use.