Operation Twins: 4.3 lakh pretend voters’ names now on net

By Express News Service
T’PURAM/KOCHI: With  simply 5 extra days to go for the state meeting polls, Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala has taken his combat over the bogus voters concern to the LDF camp by importing the complete checklist of 4.3 lakh bogus voters and a number of entries on the net.The transfer got here quickly after the High Court directed the Election Commission to allow ‘Absent-Shifted-Dead’ (ASD) voters to depart the polling cubicles solely after the indelible ink is dried. All pictures of the ASD voters taken within the cubicles be collected, digitised and saved by the fee, the court docket directed.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly issued the order whereas disposing of the petition filed by Chennithala looking for to delete or freeze the a number of entries of names within the electoral rolls.Chennithala’s ‘Operation Twins’ permits anybody to entry the complete checklist of a number of entries in every of the 140 constituencies within the state with a click on of a button. Chennithala had mentioned he would launch the complete checklist on the net as soon as the court docket decides on his petition.

The web site incorporates the a number of entries of voters and voters’ IDs created with the identical pictures however in numerous names in numerous cubicles in numerous close by constituencies. The web site, www.operationtwins.com, additionally offers the constituency quantity, sales space quantity, candidates names, the title of the voter in that constituency, voter ID, and the voter ID and tackle of the identical individual within the neighbouring constituency.

Disposing of the petition by Chennithala, the HC noticed that free and truthful elections are a part of the democratic rights of the residents. The HC bench additionally made it clear that every one safeguards offered within the Representation of Peoples’ Act free of charge and truthful election be scrupulously adopted to keep away from a number of and bogus voting.

“The EC ought to take all doable steps to forestall double voting or impersonated voting. A public discover needs to be issued cautioning the voters of any try to solid a number of votes, stating that strict motion will likely be taken by the fee as per legislation.  

Web-casting preparations made in 20,441 cubicles

“The commission should take photographs of all ASD voters identified in the polling booths and also get their signature and thumb impression,” the court docket mentioned.The court docket additionally noticed that the Election Commission of India can discover the opportunity of together with the images of the voters within the software program as a further issue for identification of demographically related entries and electoral picture identification playing cards to determine a number of entries and take motion for removing, earlier than the ultimate checklist is revealed.

The election fee submitted that preparations have been made for web-casting in 20,441 polling cubicles, to forestall any risk of impersonation. He added that directions have been issued in respect of the ASD checklist, voters must submit a declaration beneath Section 31 of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951. The voters included within the ASD checklist must signal and affix their signature and thumb impression on the time of voting.