Check name on electoral roll,polling station on EC website

Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha today held a demonstration of the website and its new voter-centric features before mediapersons.

The website is being uploaded with the electoral rolls of all 403 Assembly constituencies in UP. Using the number of his Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) available in the electoral roll on the website,a voter can also generate his voter slip and take a printout. These voters slips will have details of the constituency,polling station and its location. Voters can use this slip as identity proof during elections.

Sinha said,”From January onwards,voters can get their voter slips through SMS also. To get this service,a person will only have to SMS his EPIC number to a particular number that will be announced soon.”

Voter slips will also be distributed door-to-door before the polls. Camps will be organised in villages to for distribution of the voter slips.

Sinha said the new website will also serve as a Public Grievance Redressal System (PGRS). Every complainant will be provided an unique code,using which he can check the status of his complaint later.

The CEO also released a booklet of practices the ECI has restricted for candidates,political parties,election staff and voters during polls. The booklet has details of such restricted activities and punishments. CEO said these booklets would be provided to parties,district election officers and returning officers. “These booklets will be given to candidates also at the time of filing nomination,” Sinha said.

He said that those voters who were left out during the recent summary revision can apply both online and offline for addition of their name in the electoral roll between January 5 to 15.

The CEO read out the salient features of the ECI’s guidelines regarding election expenditure monitoring. The ECI has already raised the expenditure limit for candidates in the Assembly election to Rs 16 lakh in UP.

Sinha said that Media Certification and Monitoring Committees would be formed at the state and district levels to keep a watch for paid news. Micro-observers for election expenditure will be deployed in UP for the the first time in the 2012 elections.