Over 80% enumeration forms submitted in state: EC
Election Commission of India
(ECI) said in a statement on Saturday.
The ECI said with 100% of EFs printed and distribution nearly completed to all electors found at their addresses, a total of 6,32,59,497 forms had been collected by Saturday evening. This represents 80.11% of the approximately 7.90 crore enrolled voters in the state. The commission expressed confidence that, at this pace, the majority of forms would be collected well before the stipulated deadline of July 25.
Booth level officers (BLOs) have already digitised and uploaded 4.66 crore EFs to ECINet, the newly developed integrated software platform that consolidates 40 previously separate ECI apps.
The commission also reported that an FIR has been lodged against a BLO in Madhepura district after a woman's electors photo identity card (EPIC) was found to bear the photograph of CM Nitish Kumar. "The EPIC was wrongly issued based on the final electoral roll published in Jan 2024," the statement read.
Reiterating the importance of the EFs, the ECI said every eligible voter must fill and submit the form along with valid eligibility documents in order to be included in the draft electoral rolls scheduled for publication on Aug 1.
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"In case any elector needs more time to submit the eligibility documents, he or she can do so separately by Aug 30, which is the last date for filing claims and objections. Voters may also take the help of volunteers," the commission clarified.
To strengthen the process, the ECI has deployed an additional 20,603 newly appointed BLOs, supplementing the 77,895 already in the field. These efforts are further supported by around 1.5 lakh booth level agents (BLAs) appointed by various political parties.
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