Election Commission begins process to end dual voter registration
This years summary revision revealed that the EC received more than 70 lakh applications for voter registration across the state.
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The state Election Commission has begun the process of identifying voters who have their names registered in more than one district and Lok Sabha constituency and get them deleted from the electoral rolls. The Commission will identify the duplicate names using a special de-duplication software,prepared to check duplicity in the electoral rolls across the state.
Sources said that nearly 50 lakh duplicate names are expected to be deleted before the Lok Sabha elections. In 2012,the EC had deleted 25 lakh such names when it had run a similar software in just one Assembly constituency.
This new software,which is being used for the first time,will help us identify duplicate names registered with the polling booths in different districts and Lok Sabha constituencies across the state, said Umesh Sinha,UP Chief Electoral Officer.
Sinha explained that the software will identify such names by matching a voters and his or her fathers or husbands name with the one registered elsewhere. The voters,meanwhile,will be contacted over the phone and asked to select the booth of their choice, he said. It was for this reason that the booth-level officers had,during the recent summary revision,collected mobile numbers of the voters through door-to-door survey.
The software will be used after the district election officers have finished uploading the updated electoral rolls on the CEOs portal,which should be done by the end of this month. A draft of the updated electoral roll will be published on January 10.
This years summary revision revealed that the EC received more than 70 lakh applications for voter registration across the state. The total number of voters in the existing electoral roll is 12.97 crore,which the commission expects will cross 13.5 crore.
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