An increase of 106785 voters has occurred in Uttarakhand in the last one year. The data released by the election commission on Friday revealed that there are a total of 7815192 voters in the state out of whom 4074436 are males, 3740523 females and 233 are voters of third gender. The state had 7708407 voters a year ago. Releasing the integrated draft electoral roll on Friday, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Uttarakhand Sowjanya said that 77734 first time voters were added in the rolls after they completed 18 years of age. Dehradun district has 1395232 voters, Haridwar 1354821, Udham Singh Nagar 1217231, Uttarkashi 227214, Chamoli 294187, Rudraprayag 188887, Tehri 507433, Pauri 563382, Pithoragarh 373296, Bageshwar 213811, Almora 533049, Champawat 197372 and Nainital 749277 voters. The CEO Uttarakhand said that there are 93911 service voters in the state out of which 91378 are male and 2533 female voters. Pauri district has maximum number of service voters (16221) followed by Pithoragarh (14518). Chamoli has 10425, Dehradun 9812, Almora 7219 and Tehri 5787 service voters. Sowjanya said that the process of addition and deletion of names in the electoral roll would continue. She said that one can add his or her name or get any error corrected by logging at the website of commission www.nsvp.in or voterportal.eci.gov.in. This facility is also available at the Common Service Centres (CCS). There are 6188 CCS in the state. She said that there are 11024 polling booths in the state and BLOs are appointed at every booth.
Face identification tech to find duplicate voters
The face matching technology is helping the election commission of India to identify the voters who are enrolled at more than one place. The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sowjanaya said that the image software is now uploaded in the algorithm of the commission which is helping in pointing out those enrolled at more than one place. The technology uses the facial features by matching the pictures available with it. Till now the commission was using the data such as name of voter, father’s name, age and date of birth to identify duplicity in the rolls.
Saturday, 16 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
