New Delhi: Amid records flagging issuance of the same citizen card numbers to electors in 2 various states, the Election Commission on Sunday claimed replicate numbers do not always suggest phony citizens.
It likewise claimed that while elector picture identification card (IMPRESSIVE) varieties of several of the citizens “may be identical”, the various other information consisting of group information, setting up constituency and ballot cubicle are various.
“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 survey panel claimed.
It described that the same impressive numbers or collection were set aside to some electors from various states and union regions because of a “decentralised and manual mechanism” being adhered to before moving of the selecting roll data source of all states to the ERONET system.
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This led to particular state principal selecting policemans utilizing the very same impressive alphanumeric collection and leaving an extent for the opportunity of replicate impressive numbers being set aside to electors in various setting up constituencies in various states, the survey body claimed.
According to the EC web site, ERONET assists political election authorities preserve the selecting system”by removing duplicate entries and inclusion of migrated electors”
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“To allay any apprehensions, the commission has decided to ensure allotment of unique EPIC number to registered electors. Any case of duplicate EPIC number will be rectified by allotting a unique EPIC number,” the EC claimed. . .
The ERONET 2.0 system will certainly be upgraded to help and aid in this procedure, it claimed.
