{"id":166100,"date":"2018-10-02T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=166100"},"modified":"2018-10-02T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T03:09:13","slug":"using-cyberspace-for-polls-is-a-criminal-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/using-cyberspace-for-polls-is-a-criminal-offence\/","title":{"rendered":"Using cyberspace for polls is a criminal offence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the role of social media, the Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar highlighted that any measure to influence the polls in cyberspace would be treated as a criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Comments on FaceBook and Twitter will be monitored and users trying to incite violence will be brought to book by the respective authorities Rajath stated.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajath Kumar pointed out that the movement of cash, liquor and contraband was being closely monitored in coordination with the state administration and the I-T department. \u2018The Chief Electoral Office has been given powers to apprehend and seize contraband,\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/resized_DSC_0050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166101\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/resized_DSC_0050.jpg\" alt=\"Using cyberspace for polls is a criminal offence!\" width=\"1608\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/resized_DSC_0050.jpg 1608w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/resized_DSC_0050-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1608px) 100vw, 1608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Electoral Officer also listed out several innovations introduced by the Election Commission that included webcasting, CCTVs, smartphone apps and C-vigil \u2013 a real-time monitoring and response mechanism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The use of EVMs and VVPATS (Voter Verification Paper Audit Trail System) in the Telangana polls is a sign of India\u2019s leadership in technology, logistics and organizational abilities,\u2019 said Chief Electoral Officer-Telangana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on the role of social media, the Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar highlighted that any measure to influence the polls in cyberspace would be treated as a criminal offence. \u2018Comments on FaceBook and Twitter will be monitored and users trying to incite violence will be brought to book by the respective authorities Rajath stated.\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86332,3,2],"tags":[87177,87178,86335,7958,87176,586,68627,43],"class_list":["post-166100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-elections-2018","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-chief-electoral-office","tag-criminal-offence","tag-elections-2018","tag-facebook","tag-rajath-kumar","tag-social-media","tag-telangana-elections","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/resized_DSC_0090.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}