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Voting on May 12th? This guide is for you

May 9, 2018 Nikita Vashisth

Your vote gives you the power to hold elected representatives accountable. So, be an informed voter. Here’s everything you may want to know before you head for the polling booth this Saturday.

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Get ready to vote on Sunday

May 3, 2013 News Desk

How to find your name in the rolls? What if you don’t have an EPIC/voter ID card? How to find your polling booth? Who are the candidates? How to select the best?

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New Bangalore voter lists throw up absurd data

February 4, 2013 PG Bhat

Over 13000 voters with more than one wife and close to a hundred above the age of 120 – data extracted from the most recent voter lists released on 28th January reveal gross inaccuracies!

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New voter lists: Lakhs still missing!

February 3, 2013 PG Bhat

The Chief Electoral Officer has published a new set of voters’ lists for Bangalore on 28th January, 2013, but lakhs of legitimate voters are yet to find a place in the rolls

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New revision of electoral rolls on Jan 28th

January 22, 2013 PG Bhat

Election Commission has accepted almost 10 lakh new applications, identified about 12 lakh errors and deleted 65,000 duplicate records. That’s encouraging, but…

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HC to EC: Fix errors in electoral rolls by Jan 28th

December 20, 2012 News Desk

With the High Court order to the Chief Electoral Officer, random name deletions, false names and addresses in the roll that troubled citizens should get fixed soon.

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Large scale changes in voter list: Is the CEO concerned?

November 18, 2012 PG Bhat

The CEO of Karnataka disagreed with allegations that 30% of voter names were removed from the rolls in Basavanagudi. He is right – the deletions were close to 36.36%. He said “over 53,000 names” were added to the rolls – right again! 3,99,299 voters were added.

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State Election Commission orders voter roll checking after citizens detect goof up

February 15, 2010 Vaishnavi Vittal

The English language voter rolls for several polling booths were found to be complete replications of entries from other booths, Smart Vote found out.

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