Thiruvananthapuram: An electoral officer in ballot certain Kerala was on Monday suspended, pending enquiry, after 5 voter identification playing cards within the identify of a single individual was discovered generated within the laptop sytem in Kerala’s Kasaragod district.
Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena stated the Assistant Electoral Registration Officer in Uduma was suspended after the playing cards within the identify of Kumari, a 61-year-old voter, was discovered within the system.
Nonetheless, solely considered one of these was issued to her and the opposite 4 had been cancelled, he stated.
On the costs of Chief of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala about irregularities in preparation of voters lists, he stated they’d carried out an in depth probe into the ”a number of entries” flagged by him and located there have been 590 double entries, which was nothing new and was there in lots of states on account of a wide range of causes.
“As of now, we weren’t capable of finding any political motive. Whether it is there, I can not say a lot about it. That doesn”t come underneath my purview,” Mr Meena stated.
He warned that strict motion could be taken towards such officers if discrepency was detected within the voter card issuing train.
Mr Meena stated a number of entries was nothing new and was there in all states and would possibly occur whereas making use of for the playing cards.
“Making use of for voting ID card is a web based course of and many individuals could apply a number of instances by mistake. Generally your utility shall be processed three or 4 instances. Another excuse is that many individuals shift their constituencies and addresses and apply on the new place. So they are going to apply for voters ID card, however their names shall be nonetheless of their earlier place. It should come as double entry,” Mr Meena stated.
The CEO stated such Demographically Comparable Entries (DSEs) are usually eliminated earlier than the election notification and never
after it.
“Over 60,000 DSEs had been eliminated earlier than January this yr. However after January, over 9 lakh purposes reached us. As of now, we can’t take away it whereas the state goes for an election.”
Mr Meena stated the train shall be completed after the polls. “Sales space clever lists had been being ready and these could be handed over to presiding officers,” he stated.
“We’ve got ordered an in depth investigation in all of the 140 constituencies,” Mr Meena stated.
