AMRITSAR: Election Commission of India today announced that it will launch a nationwide programme to link the server of Registrar of Birth and Death of each district with its server for “automatic deletion” of the voter from the electoral rolls on issuance of the death certificate.
The beginning of the programme would be made from Punjab to tackle the malice of duplicate and invalid voters, the Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said here today.
Addressing the media persons after holding meeting with representatives of various political parties from Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts, Zaidi said that the deletion of voters on death cannot be left alone on the deceased’s family or enumerator but it has to be automated in the system and ECI would like to use latest technological tools to tackle this problem.
He said that Punjab would be a pilot project under its e-District programme and after its success it would be replicated to the other parts of the country. (AGENCIES)
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