Mysore/Mysuru: Clean and error-free voter lists have not been achieved even after 75 years of Independence and the classic problem of ‘ghosts’ (dead person being mentioned alive), alive persons mentioned as dead and a lot of duplicate names pervade most large voter databases.
Voter lists are revised and prepared after spending crores of rupees periodically but still they are full of anomalies, leaving a lot of scope for fake voting. Lack of coordination between City Corporation and Revenue officials — responsible for issuing Death Certificates in urban and rural areas respectively — and the offices of Election Commission is said to be the reason behind the present anomaly in voters’ list.
