Duplication of voter card numbers: Election Commission to update system
Election Commission on Sunday said it will rectify the issue and also update its technology-driven platform. The poll authority also asserted that duplicate numbers do not necessarily imply fake voters.
It said while the elector photo identity card (EPIC) numbers of some of the voters «may be identical», the other details, including demographic details, assembly constituency and polling booth, are different.
«Irrespective of the EPIC number, any elector can cast a vote only at their designated polling station in their respective constituency in their state or Union territory where they are enrolled in the electoral roll and nowhere else,» the poll panel said.
It explained that identical EPIC numbers or series were allotted to some electors from different states and Union territories due to a «decentralised and manual mechanism» being followed prior to shifting of the electoral roll database of all states to the ERONET (Electoral Roll Management) platform.
This resulted in certain state chief electoral officers using the same EPIC alpha-numeric series and leaving a scope for the possibility of duplicate EPIC numbers being allotted to electors in different assembly constituencies in different states, the poll body said.
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