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Govt explores possibility of single voter list for LS, local body poll

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 29

After implementing one-nation-one-ration card, the government is now exploring the possibility of having a common electoral roll for the Lok Sabha, Assembly and local body elections to avoid discrepancies and bring uniformity in the voter list.

At present, the Election Commission prepares the electoral roll or voter list for the Lok Sabha and Assembly poll. The state election commissions, which are altogether separate bodies as per constitutional provisions, hold elections for local bodies such as municipalities and panchayats in their respective states based on their own voter lists.

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  • Money is spent on the same exercise twice. Often discrepancies have been noticed when names of voters go missing from voter lists
  • In a letter written to the government in November 1999, the Election Commission had said that separate rolls prepared by the EC and State ECs "not only created confusion among the electors because their names might be present in one roll but absent in the other, or vice versa, but also resulted in duplication of effort and expenditure"
  • The EC and parliamentary panel on Law and Personnel Ministries have supported the idea in the past too

"The government is discussing whether there can be a single electoral roll for these three types of elections. Now, states have to be persuaded to adopt the central electoral roll (the one prepared by EC)," said a senior functionary. According to another official, it is "desirable" to have one electoral roll as the entire exercise gets repeated. Earlier this month, the PMO held a meeting on the issue, where top officials of the Law Ministry and the EC gave their views on the present status and the future possibilities on the subject. (with inputs from PTI)



Source:- The Tribune https://ift.tt/32AdbOE
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