Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has said that repeated applications submitted by a voter can result in the generation of multiple Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPICs), and maintaining that periodic deduplication is actively carried out to purge duplicate entries from the electoral rolls.
CEO Navdeep Rinwa also convened a virtual meeting with district election officials including electoral registration officers on Monday to discuss removal of duplicate entries in the electoral roll and prepare for a special campaign day on October 24.
Rinwa ordered officials to seriously take up the task of identifying duplicate entries due to a voter submitting more than one application during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), according to a statement issued later.
“Such voters should be identified through Booth Level Officers (BLOs), and prompt resolution of cases related to duplicate entries should be ensured by having them fill out Form-7 as per rules,” Rinwa said. He also told field officers that many eligible citizens were still out of the electoral roll and a comprehensive campaign should be run to raise awareness among such eligible citizens and get their names registered in the electoral roll.
