Emmie
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Sorry, sorry. I'm just a bit testy today. Dealing with people like @batmannow can really get on my nerve.
Which words exactly do you want me to edit?
As for article 62 and 63
It does not actually mention who should be eligible for being a part of the CEC, it mainly deals with those that are running for Parliament. What is needed is to figure out how the CEC is going to be run, who should be eligible to be apart of the commission, and how to make sure that the ECP is completely neutral. Implementation can only occur if reforms are taken to make sure that there are penalties for non-adherence, currently (from what I know, and correct me if I'm wrong) there are no such penalties.
This sort of reform does take time to implement, there is no way around it. You need guidelines to make sure the people in charge are doing their job. You need mechanisms in place to make sure that no one slacks off or ends up being corrupt, and if they do there are sever penalties. This takes time in order to make sure everything is in place, there is just no avoiding it at all.
That is my argument.
You just don't learn, do you? I saved you from being banned last time, I won't do it again.
I thought you talked about the eligibility of the candidates. Well, chapter VIII of the constitution describes it all, CEC has to be a judge serving or retired. Laws, rules and regulation made under it ain't the issue in question here, the issue in question here is the implementation of those laws in their letter and spirit. For example - Law says tax evaders can't contest elections but ROs do allow evaders to contest elections; law says no authority can misuse its powers but ROs do misuse their powers. The point is, law is there and so do rules and regulations - what absent here is the implementation.
Law says election commission shall hold a free and fair elections, no corrupt practices shall be practiced, there's a book the size of encyclopedia book which describes elections laws & rules and regulations, you name a form of law you find it there. What useful purpose these fancy terms could serve if the person in charge at various levels of the commission has a political party to support? RO despite of prescribed guidelines would value the candidate of the party that appointed him more than the candidate of the party that opposes his favorite candidate. Polling staff, which is constituted on the will of the powerful party, by all means shall do exactly as they are directed to do. Police, district functionaries, everyone has a party to support.
May be you need to bring a law that ensures neutrality more sternly but then again it would be a law, not some minute rules and regulations, certainly it won't take a decade to understand the passed law, contrary to what you have suggested.