Delhi has 7.5 lakh bogus voters: EC list

VOTE TWICE OVER: Some people have even been registered with two different voter ID's for the same polling booth.

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New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) may have reined in political parties during election time, but now it's time for them to look inwards.

The EC's final list of voters in Delhi alone has a list of 7.5 lakh duplicate voters which is enough to swing any election either ways.

In three months from now the Capital will be ready for polls and some of Delhi's electorate will find themselves more privileged than others as they would be able to vote twice, thanks to oversight of the EC.

Viplav Communications, a private agency has prepared a voting list in which Udai Singh a voter from Mandawli has been registered as a legitimate voter in two different polling booths.

Some people have even been registered in the same polling booth with two different voter ID card numbers.

"Margin of winning or losing is 6000-7000 votes and that is the number of duplicate voters. So it's your duplicate voter who is deciding who your MLA will be, It's a big problem,'' says Viplav Communications CEO Pallav Pandey.

It's a huge number, 7.5 per cent of the total which is over one crore electorate in Delhi and which means one assembly seat of one lakh voters has 7000 fake voters each.

However, EC is rather dismissive of that fact.

"It is an ongoing process and we have not completed our work as yet,'' says Chief Election Commissioner, N Gopalaswami.

The EC has already spent over Rs 1 crore in revising rolls for more than three months. The final list of electorate has also been put up on its official website.

The EC will insist that it's an ongoing process and deletions keep happening all the time, but 7.5 per cent in a total voters list of over one crore is not a small percentage.

The EC has been praised lately for its record in holding fair elections but some of the glaring still loopholes remain.