Articles by PG Bhat

The Chief Electoral Officer for Karnataka had admitted to the possibility of Bengaluru’s voter roll being bloated. And here we are, with a summary revision taking place. Did you have visitors who tried to verify your address and voter id?

Low voter turnout shames India’s IT city Bangalore states NDTV and others nod in agreements. The authorities, politicians, noted citizens, all are aflame criticising the citizens for not participating in the elections. Newspaper have used

You want to search for your name in the voter list, but the website doesn’t open. You won’t know where to search. Then the website redirects, or opens on its own.

Problems of duplicate voter entries in the rolls continue to affect the quality of voter rolls. It’s too late to correct them now, but Election Commission can correct the entries before 2019 election.

Check your name in voter list using the state election commission website, because the data elsewhere might not be authentic,.

Voter list is referred by everyone including officials and political parties. There are indications of the list having serious errors this time. Can the errors be rectified?

Everything looks fine when you look at the lists displayed in the Election Commission website. It takes an expert to dig out the things wrong with it. Here is one analysis on the voter list published recently.

It’s National Voters’ Day. However, the real voter continues to suffer while the officials get rewarded for the work they did not do!

Have you checked and ensured that your name is included? PG Bhat says that around 4,00,000 voters might be denied voting rights this time, while duplicated records will continue to exist on rolls.

If you want to vote in the Bengaluru municipality elections, do check your name on the voter roll. On the other hand, you might have erased someone else’s record on voter list, while modifying yours. Not your mistake, anyway!

Despite several alerts on the issue of problems created by poor quality software, voter rolls continue to have the same problems. Illegal deletions and modifications continue.

The voter roll draft has improved, but there remain some inaccuracies and mistakes yet to be corrected. CEO’s response is encouraging, says P G Bhat.