KANCHEEPURAM, July 16, 2015
Deletions in poll roll: officials cautioned
- STAFF REPORTER
‘Don’t act hastily while comparing Aadhaar data with poll roll data’
The District Election Wing (DEW) has been advised not to go ahead blindly with the ‘absent-shifted-dead’ (ASD) list generated by the computer after including Aadhaar numbers in the electoral roll.
During an inspection of electoral roll purification and Aadhaar number seeding exercise at the Taluk Office by Joint Chief Electoral Officer A. Sivagnanam on Tuesday, the DEW staff informed him that around 7,000 entries were generated by the system in the ASD list after seeding of Aadhaar numbers.
‘Mismatch is prime reason’
The staff told him that the mismatch of the Aadhaar data with details available on the electoral roll was the prime reason for generation of such large number of ASD entries.
However, during the cross-verification of some entries, it was found that the names of certain electors who signed the enumeration booklet but had not provided Aadhaar number, mobile phone number and e-mail address, had also found their way into the ASD list.
The official cautioned the staff not to act hastily while comparing the Aadhaar data with electoral roll data. Mere spelling mistakes or mismatch of address entries could not be construed as valid and final reason for deletion of names from the voter list.
“Don’t act hastily while comparing Aadhaar data
with poll roll data”