New Delhi: Four states and a Union Territory
have been able to achieve the daunting target of providing all
registered voters with "defect-free" Election Photo I-Cards,
according to latest figures.
Haryana, Kerala, Meghalaya, Tripura and Union Territory
of Puducherry have provided the electorate registered in their
territories with defect-free voters I-cards, according to
latest Election Commission figures.
While Haryana has provided 13,029,140 registered voters
with correct photo I-cards, Kerala has provided 22,366,580
voters with flawless I-cards.
The number of voters, who have received defect-free
election I-cards in Meghalaya, stands at 12,77,739. In Tripura,
the figure is 2,079,810.
The UT of Puducherry distributed flawless voter I-cards
to 762,028 of its registered electorate.
A total of 588,672,021 electorate across India have so
far received defect free photo I-cards. The total number of
registered voters as on January 1, 2009 stood at 714,662,683.
The common defects in photo I-cards is that while some
of them possess wrong addresses and names, others come with
wrong photographs.
Rectifying the flaws is a lengthy process. Those having
problems with their I-cards have to fill Form 8 and then get
it corrected after fresh verifications by authorities.
In 1993, the Election Commission began to issue photo
voter I-cards to electors throughout the country to check
bogus voting and impersonation.
PTI
