Voter list correction

Reportedly, the enumerators will go door to door to check whether any eligible voter is left out and also eliminate over one crore excess or duplicate names from the list. But the citizens are yet to be convinced fully that the left out names will be included this time around. And, the manner in which the enumerators are going about doing their work leaves more questions in our minds as to whether they will be able to finish the job within the given time.

An acceptable voter list being the universal demand at the moment as the first step towards holding a free and fair election, any casual approach taken to meet the deadline would backfire with stern consequences. Already reports are reaching us from the field level that many enumerators are working without proper guideline and some of them even complained about complex instructions that many voters are least interested to comply.

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We strongly feel that there is no alternative to having a correct voter list, for which huge sums from public exchequer have been spent in two phases. We also feel that the EC officials who continued with the work of preparing an incorrect voter list despite the High Court and Supreme Court instructions should be held responsible if the correction work remains unfulfilled. There is no reason why the officials concerned should be given full immunity when the question of national election is at stake.