New Delhi: Amid reviews flagging issuance of equivalent voter card numbers to electors in two totally different states, the Election Fee on Sunday stated duplicate numbers don’t essentially suggest faux voters.
It additionally stated that whereas elector photograph id card (EPIC) numbers of among the voters “could also be equivalent”, the opposite particulars together with demographic particulars, meeting constituency and polling sales space are totally different.
“Regardless of the EPIC quantity, any elector can forged a vote solely at their designated polling station of their respective constituency of their state or union territory the place they’re enrolled within the electoral roll and nowhere else,” the ballot panel stated.
It defined that equivalent EPIC numbers or collection have been allotted to some electors from totally different states and union territories as a result of a “decentralised and guide mechanism” being adopted previous to shifting of the electoral roll database of all states to the ERONET platform.
This resulted in sure state chief electoral officers utilizing the identical EPIC alphanumeric collection and leaving a scope for the opportunity of duplicate EPIC numbers being allotted to electors in several meeting constituencies in several states, the ballot physique stated.
In response to the EC web site, ERONET helps election officers keep the electoral system “by eradicating duplicate entries and inclusion of migrated electors”.
“To allay any apprehensions, the fee has determined to make sure allotment of distinctive EPIC quantity to registered electors. Any case of duplicate EPIC quantity shall be rectified by allotting a singular EPIC quantity,” the EC stated.
The ERONET 2.zero platform shall be up to date to assist and help on this course of, it stated.
