Voter ID

The ECI also referred to its letter issued to all Chief Election Officers of all the states on July 4 this year which said that collection of Aadhaar from the voters should be on a voluntary basis for linking and authentication of electoral roll data.

The volunteer action aims to eliminate any duplicates and contribute to the creation of "clean and transparent" photo-based election records. The Lok Sabha approved the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill by voice vote in December 2021, allowing the linkage of Aadhaar with voter identification. 

The newly modified forms, which are simpler and more user-friendly, will go into effect on August 1, 2022.

Sohan Singh and Mohan Singh, often known as Sohna-Mohna, celebrated their 18th birthday last year. After the Election Commission agreed to count them as two voters, they were granted two voter ID cards.

Back in 2018, political parties urged the Election Commission to link Aadhaar numbers with electors' detail

Aadhaar linking with electoral roll will solve one of the major problems in electoral database management -- multiple enrolments of the same person at different places, sources said.

The Bill seeks to allow electoral registration officers to seek the Aadhaar number of people who want to register as voters "for the purpose of establishing the identity.

The Election Laws (Amendment), Bill 2021, which proposes to link Aadhaar data to electoral roll enrolment violates the fundamental right to privacy, says the AIMIM chief

The Election Commission has already written to the government, urging many election reforms, such as making paid news a crime and raising the penalty for filing a false affidavit to two years in prison.
 

In an exclusive interview, LJP National Spokesperson Sanjay Saraf tells Asianet Newsable Correspondent Mohammed Yacoob about what led to the fallout between Chirag Paswan and Nitish Kumar. He also revealed that LJP would route for BJP candidate as next Bihar CM and more.

In an exclusive interview to Asianet Newsable, Sanjay Saraf, the National Spokesperson of Lok Jan Shakti Party has revealed to Newsable Correspondent Mohammed Yacoob about what led to the fall out with CM Nitish Kumar and JDU. He also revealed that LJP would route for BJP candidate as next Bihar CM and more.

In a major relief to RR Nagar aspirant Munirathna Naidu, the Supreme Court has given a green signal for Election Commission to hold a bye-election on November 3. His opponent Tulasi Muniraju Gowda had approached the Supreme Court to delay the election as Naidu was accused in a fake voter ID case. 
 

A resident of Murshidabad’s Ramnagar in West Bengal got an unpleasant surprise after he received his revised voter ID with a picture of a dog instead of his

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22-year-old transwoman Riyanna will finally be able to vote for the first time in Bengaluru Central after several failed attempts at trying to get her voter ID