The final list of voter’s announced, 5.03 crore voter turnout in the state has been revised following the Lok Sabha polls, state Chief Electoral Officer Sanjeev Kumar said. Speaking at a press conference in the Election Commission’s office on Wednesday, he said that a special registration campaign was held to add voters’ list to 18 persons who had completed 18 years. Total 17.45 lakh applications were received and 7.12 lakh voters were newly listed. He added that 7.52 lakh people have been removed from the list of voters.
Accordingly, 6.35 lakh voters who have not registered in the list of voters have listed their names. During the special campaign 7,54,829 applications were received for the name, 7,21,653 applications were approved. Similarly, 7,59,277 applications have been received for removal of the names and 7,52,901 applications have been approved. In addition, there were 2,31,376 applications for amendments, of which 2,25,306 were tuned.
The voters’ list is allowed to be named until the date of filing the nomination papers. The youth who are 18 years old on January 1, said their name can be included in the voter list and can be filed online at the government offices without any documents.
As per the revised voter turnout, the state has 5.03 crore voters, of which 2,54,84,972 are men, 2,48,46,976 women and 4,718 other voters. 2,54,84,972 male voters have 2,54,55,976 general and 28996 service voters, 2,48,46,488 general and 488 service voters in 2,48,46,976 women voters. The final list of service voters will be announced on February 22.
Over 7.52 lakh voters have been dropped during the Special Comprehensive Revision Program of voters list. Out of this 4.72 lakh voters have been displaced and 1.95 lakh voters have died. The number of voters in the 2019 voter turnout was 3.82 lakh and this time it was 976 women voters per thousand men.
1.14 lakh fake identification cards detected: 1,14,377 photographs recovered in the state have been identified and some cases have been initiated. Of the 54,140 cases of photographic repetition cases detected in voter list revision, He said that no action was taken in 64,600 cases.
1.82 lakh photographs have been identified, and 1.47 lakh cases have already been taken. As many as 34,000 cases have been pending and voters have migrated to other places for work. In addition, 10.41 lakh voters have been recovered and 31,372 cases have been reported. Thus, those who do not have a portrait in the identity card requested their photographs to be given to the authorities.
Parties should
be appointed by a polling agent The Political parties should proceed to the polls to appoint 58,186 polling booths across the state. Those who are not included in the list of voters should work to identify unauthorized persons. Currently, the agency has appointed 9,497 polling booths from the Congress, 14,696 from the BJP, 1,038 from the JDS and an agent of 950 polling booths from BSP, Sanjeev Kumar said.
PTI
