Hyderabad: A number of Telangana voters who reportedly submitted their enumeration kinds with particulars from the earlier Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) are actually receiving notices stating that their names couldn’t be mapped with the 2002 electoral rolls.
In accordance with a report revealed in The Hindu, potential glitches within the software program utilized by the Election Fee of India (ECI) could have resulted in some voters being wrongly categorised as “unmapped.”
Voters say they’d already offered 2002 particulars
Some electors mentioned they’d spent appreciable time looking the earlier electoral rolls and offering the required data of their enumeration kinds.
The Hindu quoted an elector, V Swapna, saying that her household had searched by outdated voter lists and efficiently recognized their particulars earlier than filling out the kinds. Regardless of this, all members of her household obtained notices saying their names weren’t mapped with the 2002 SIR.
Notices not at all times delivered at doorsteps
The difficulty isn’t restricted to the mapping course of. In a number of areas, BLOs are reportedly not delivering notices on to voters’ properties.
As a substitute, some BLOs are sitting at group halls and asking electors to gather their notices.
Electoral officers mentioned that in a number of circumstances, BLOs couldn’t add the 2002 electoral roll particulars into the ECI cellular software.
A BLO, talking to The Hindu anonymously, mentioned the appliance didn’t settle for particulars when there have been even small variations in names.
Over 32 lakh electors listed as unmapped
In Telangana, there are 32,36,659 unmapped electors. Notices have been issued to those voters, mentioning the date and time for hearings earlier than the involved Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) or Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO).
In Hyderabad, 5,80,908 electors are within the unmapped class.
They should seem for the hearings with the related paperwork.
