Voter id number: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee recently raised the issue of the same voter ID number in two states. With this, he also accused the Election Commission of preparing fake voters for the BJP. Now the Election Commission has received an answer in this matter. The Election Commission says that the same voter ID number does not mean that the voter is fake.
The Commission said, ‘Some voters may have the same electors photo identity card (EPIC) number, but their demographic details, assembly constituency and polling station will be different. Despite the same EPIC number, any voter can only vote at the prescribed polling station in his respective constituency, where he is enrolled in the voter list. Apart from this, he cannot vote elsewhere.
How did this mistake happen?
The Election Commission clarified that this was due to the decentralized and manual system adopted before transferring the voter list database of DuplicCC states to the Earonet platform. The main election commissioner offices of some state used the same alphanumeric series and for this reason there was a possibility of allotment of duplicate EPIC numbers to voters in some assembly constituencies of different states.
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However, now the Election Commission has decided to ensure allocation of unique EPIC number to such voters. Every case of duplicate EPIC number will be corrected by alloting a unique EPIC number. For this, the Eronet 2.0 platform will be updated.
What did Mamta Banerjee accuse?
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, citing duplicate in EPIC numbers, accused the BJP of collusion with the Election Commission to add fake voters to the voter list of the state before the Bengal assembly elections next year. He had said, ‘I have evidence from all the districts of West Bengal. The names of the people of Haryana and Gujarat are visible under the same EPIC number with the residents of West Bengal. Fake voters have been added online.
He said, ‘Opposition parties in Maharashtra and Delhi failed to recognize this trick, but we recognized this move of BJP in Bengal. The BJP similarly won in Maharashtra and Delhi. Now they want to do the same in West Bengal. It is clear how the BJP is tampering with the voter list with the blessings of the Election Commission.
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