Kolkata: Amid the Trinamool Congress raised the issue of ‘fake voters’, the Election Commission has decided to introduce a new option in its software for the detection of ‘ghost’ electors, an official said.
The new option would help the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) find out if multiple names are attached to a particular EPIC number, he said.
“The chief electoral officers in all states have been informed about this decision,” he said.
On Monday, a letter was sent to the chief electoral officers of the states informing them about a new module for correcting ‘duplicate EPIC numbers’, the official said.
Until now, the state election officers or the district EROs could not see the identity cards or EPIC numbers of voters from their end and thus missed out on those with similar EPIC numbers in other states, the official added.
Acting chief electoral officer of West Bengal, Dibyendu Das on Monday held a virtual meeting with senior officials in the districts and briefed them about the decision, he said. Corrections in the voter list of West Bengal have been ordered to be completed by March 21, he added
