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Delhi Electoral Rolls: Shadow of Errors and Anomalies

Delhi Electoral Rolls: Shadow of Errors and Anomalies By  Deepak Parvatiyar January 17, 2015 Everything is not hunky dory in Delhi as the capital city braces for February 2015 Assembly elections. A Congress party member has moved the Delhi High Court alleging there are many in the national capital with multiple voter identity cards with different addresses that implies that the same person could cast votes more than once using different cards. The petitioner had claimed there were over 41,000 forged voter identity cardholders in Mundka Assembly constituency alone. Even an Election Commission analysis of 50,000 applications for voter registrations, out of around 1.5 lakh online applicants since November 10, 2014 in Delhi, found that 3,053 applications had the same user ID and 2,744 applications were from the same Internet Protocol address; 2,400 applications were made using a single email ID, and 603 applicants used single mobile phone number. However, as the Electi