The facility is offered by MobME Wireless Solutions, based in Technopark here, through the mobile governance project of the Kerala State IT Mission, department of information technology.
To use the service, a voter needs to send the message "ELE
The service is available to over 22 million voters in 140 constituencies ahead of the April 13 assembly election. The facility covers all telecom service providers in the state.
The facility will help end voters' dependence on agents of political parties to issue voters' slips that mention details about their polling centre and booth.
“The chief electoral office here, the Alappuzha collectorate and the Kozhikode collectorate have been provided access to the m-governance platform for sending election related messages to key officials,” said MobME CEO Sanjay Vijayakumar.
He said the project won the prestigious NASSCOM Innovation Award for Market Facing Innovation for 2011.
MobME is a key player in the mobile value added services space with live systems across the length and breadth of the country.
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