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Multiple Elector Photo Identity Cards generated for same person during SIR, admits Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer

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Multiple Elector Photo Identity Cards generated for same person during SIR, admits Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer

The Hindu Impact Bengaluru After The Hindu reported that at least 803 voter IDs were linked to 397 people in Mahadevapura Assembly Constituency even after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which was intended to weed out duplicate entries, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Karnataka, admitted that the discrepancies flagged in the report were due to “procedural circumstances during data processing”.

The report highlighted instances of people holding multiple voter IDs within Mahadevapura, as well as cases where the same Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number appeared in the final electoral rolls of two different Assembly constituencies.