Believe It or Not: This is Why Election Commission Website Lagged for Two Hours
New Delhi, Dec 12: What's in a name? While the bard surmises not that much, the Election Commission of India may not agree with him.
Even as the whole country was glued to their TVs, phones, and computers on the day that the results of assembly elections of five states (ahem, Madhya Pradesh) were to be announced, media organizations around India provided a constantly updating stream of coverage of the latest counts. Every constituency in Rajasthan, Mizoram, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was closely monitored so as to provide the public with the most recent polls, which would help choose the state governments. Every site was updated with all the latest figures. Every site, except one.
The Election Commission's own website was lagging and showing two-hour-old voting numbers in a situation which was changing every minute. While one might be tempted to blame this on the Windows 95 systems and Internet Explorer browser they presumably use (hey, we don't know; they never invited us over), the reason was far more random.
According to the Indian Express, the reason behind the lag was that one particular Mizo political party's name was longer than the 60 characters limit, causing problems with the system's pagination of counting leads. If that's gobbledygook to you, don't feel bad; we're tech-challenged as well.
Basically, the Peoples Representation for Identity and Status of Mizoram (PRISM) Party had too long a name for the system/software/whatever to compute/process/figure out. Huh, guess there's something in a name after all.
In any case, once the problem was identified, it was promptly rectified, and the lag was removed.
Were you wondering why thr Election Commission website was so slow yesterday? The Indian Express has the answer and it's hilarious pic.twitter.com/3cOMkuJ02X
— Mihir Sharma (@mihirssharma) December 12, 2018
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Karnataka Assembly passes Social Boycott Prevention Bill
Belagavi (Karnataka) (PTI): The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed the Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill unanimously.
The bill was introduced in the House by the Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa on December 12.
The bill defines social boycott as a gesture or an act, whether oral or written, of any social discrimination between the members of the community.
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The bill proposes three years of imprisonment and a fine extending up to Rs 1 lakh. It also prohibits people from gathering, assembling, or congregating at any time and at any place with the view or intention to deliberate on the issue of imposing social boycott on any member of the community. It prohibits gathering to impose social boycott.
The bill also says that if the accused is convicted, the court should hear the victim on the quantum of sentence and then only pass the sentence.
During the discussion, Mahadevappa termed the bill historic and said the aim of the bill is to bring equality in society and to protect backward people from further getting marginalised through social boycott.
The BJP and the JD(S) MLAs welcomed the bill.
