Election Commission to fix duplicate voter ID numbers issue in 3 months
Amid the controversy over duplicate Voter ID Card numbers issued to some electors, the Election Commission of India on Friday said it would resolve the matter in the next three months by ensuring a unique national EPIC number to all voters. The Trinamool Congress, which had first raised the issue of duplicate Voter IDs, was quick to react saying “the ECI has admitted and accepted their guilt today”. The poll body said that it has now decided to resolve this long pending issue after detailed discussions within the technical teams and concerned Chief Electoral Officers in the next three months by ensuring a unique national EPIC number to the existing electors having a duplicate EPIC number and for future electors as well. It has also given a very unconvincing explanation that “this duplication of EPIC has happened since the year 2000 due to registration officers using incorrect alphanumeric series”, the post on X said.
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