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Voter ID Aadhaar link to check bogus votes
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is planning to link Aadhaar card with Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) to weed out bogus voters from the database and also to increase poll percentage. Chief Election Commissioner H S Brahma, who launched the Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Drive (ERPAD) at a meeting of all District Collectors from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh held at the Marri Channa Reddy
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is planning to link Aadhaar card with Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) to weed out bogus voters from the database and also to increase poll percentage. Chief Election Commissioner H S Brahma, who launched the Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Drive (ERPAD) at a meeting of all District Collectors from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh held at the Marri Channa Reddy Human Resources Development (MCR-HRD) Institute here, said the project to link voter ID card with Aadhaar would be taken up in 676 districts in the country from March 1 and would be completed by August 15. There are over 84 crore voter ID cards in the country and about 74 crore Aadhaar cards, he said.
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EPIC card has only the name, photo and address of a voter but Aadhaar card will have the biometric details also which will help in weeding out the bogus ones. It will help in preparing near 100 per cent voter database, Brahma said. He said the National Voter Service Portal has been functioning from January 25 and Indians anywhere in the world can visit the portal and register themselves as voters at their chosen place in the country.
