Nueva Delhi: Sunday’s Electoral Commission clarified that the duplication in the number of photos identification card of the voters (EPIC) is assigned to the voters of two different states/union territories does not imply duplication or false voters, since the voter can only vote in the polls mentioned in his epic, which will be different, even if the Epic number It is the same.
Stating that an identical alphanumeric series may have been used by two different states/UT under the decentralized and manual mechanism followed before the change in the electoral roll database of all states/UTS to the Eronet platform, however, they are clarified even in epic with identical numbers, other fields, including demographic details, constitut of assembly and survey are different.
“Regardless of the epic number, any voter can cast a vote only in its designated voting station in their respective constituency in the state/UT, where they are registered in the electoral list, and nowhere else,” said the voting panel.
Granting that the use of the same alphanumeric series on epic cards issued by certain offices of the state electoral officer/UT (CEO) left the scope to double epic numbers assigned to voters in different constituencies of the Assembly in different states/UTS, the commission said on Sunday that it has decided to guarantee the allocation of a single EPIC number to registered voters. “Any case of an epic duplicate number will be rectified by assigning a unique epic number. The Eronet 2.0 platform will be updated to help and help in this process, ”he said.
The clarification of the CE on duplication in epic numbers occurred after an TMC leader marked the case of a Cooch Behar voter, Western Bengal, who allegedly shared the same epic number with another voter in Didargan, Uttar Pradesh.
Only last week, the Prime Minister of Western Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, had alleged the presence of “false” and “external” voters in the state.