Kerala Opposition chief releases record of 4.34 lakh bogus voters, says extra particulars to observe

Kerala Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday launched the record of 4.34 lakh bogus voters, a day after the Election Commission informed the excessive courtroom that it had recognized solely 38,000 such voters.
Chennithala launched the record afterward Wednesday night on the web site operationtwins.com. The portal has detailed a listing of voters whose names have allegedly been duplicated with the identical {photograph} in the identical constituency and people whose names have been duplicated in a couple of constituency. The alleged duplicated names in all 140 Assembly constituencies have been launched on the web site.
Earlier, the Election Commission had carried out a prima facie examination into alleged discrepancies within the voters’ record for the Assembly election and it was ascertained that the identical individual had emerged within the record a number of instances with totally different addresses. Such individuals had been discovered possessing a number of voters ID playing cards.
After releasing the record of bogus/duplicated voters, Chennithala stated the record has been delivered to the general public area. “The website would be updated with more details about bogus voters, including their photographs. Political leaders and the public should make use of this list to detect discrepancies in their respective booths. This is an effort to prevent bogus voting in the Assembly election. The public can also alert the Election Commission about bogus voters,” he stated.

Chennithala stated the Election Commission didn’t conduct a booth-level examination to determine bogus voters. However, it seems that booth-level officers couldn’t detect the duplication of voters’ names utilizing the identical picture in varied cubicles. It is the ruling CPI (M) which desires to make use of those bogus voters and the Opposition can not enable that, he stated.

Considering the petition of the Opposition chief, looking for a crackdown on bogus voting, the Election Commission just lately informed the excessive courtroom that the polling officer would get an affidavit from voters whose names have been duplicated within the record. The courtroom had advised deployment of central forces in cubicles to forestall bogus voting.