8 lakh bogus voters face axe from electoral roll

Nazari Naksha, the Intensive Revision Of Electoral Rolls (IRER) undertaken by GHMC in the 15 Assembly constituencies, has detected thousands of fictitious voters.

In the Khairatabad constituency, 12,000 non-existing voters were deleted. The invalid voters were mostly falling under categories like death. Duplicate entries were found in large numbers in constituencies in city’s south corridor and the peripheral belt like Kapra, LB Nagar, Kukatpally and Quthbullapur.

In a pilot project, the GHMC is sending boothlevel officers to every household. So far, 7.5 lakh voters have been covered under this.

This exercise will put an end to bogus voting. Nearly 8 lakh bogus voters are expected to be axed from the list after the new exercise, said a source.

The Election Commission of India has issued a revised schedule for conducting the IRER. The GHMC is undertaking the pilot project as part of the IRER.

Earlier, voters living in the same house were allocated booths in different polling stations. Cases like death and duplication have to be personally reported to the Election Commission for deleting the names from the list. Due to this, multiple voting was difficult to curb. The IRER survey, however, has changed this with help of software.

Under the new programme, voters will be registered within their local booth area or the local police station limit. This will help weed out multiple voting.

Besides, the inspecting officer will physically check if the voter is present, dead, shifted or bogus.

In case of a correction, the voter can approach the EC. New eligible voters can also register under the IRER.

GHMC is also linking the house number with the voter cards. “The new house numbering system is assigned wherever it is missing. In case voters have shifted, their names will be recorded accordingly,” said GHMC commissioner Dr B Janardhan Reddy.

This exercise will put an end to bogus voting, said a source.

7.5 L VOTERS HAVE BEEN COVERED UNDER THE ELECTORAL ROLL REVISION 12,000 NON-EXISTING VOTERS HAVE BEEN DELETED IN KHAIRATABAD CONSTITUENCY VOTERS will be registered within their local booth area or the local police station limit.