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Revision of voters' list from today

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Polling stations and village offices to function as special centres

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Election Commission is launching an exercise for revising the voters' list of the State, with January 1, 2007 as the qualifying date, on Saturday.

Chief Electoral Officer Nalini Netto said here on Friday that the revision would take place in Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad and Thrissur districts on November 11, 12, 18 and 19 and in the remaining districts on November 18, 19, 25 and 26.

Polling stations and village offices would function as special centres for receiving applications for including and deleting names and for making corrections in the voters' list in respective districts on respective dates.

The revision of the voters' list of the Thiruvambady constituency in Kozhikode taluk would take place only after the byelection there.

Ms. Netto said the existing photo-affixed draft voters' list was available for reference to the general public in taluk and village offices and polling stations.

The complaints against it and applications for the inclusion of names would be accepted in taluk and village offices in the first batch of seven districts till December 7 and in the remaining districts till December 14. Any person in the existing list could move for the deletion of names of dead persons and those who had shifted from the place from the list.

Ms. Netto asked each voter to ensure that the photo affixed in the draft voters' list against the name was his or hers.

If the photo was not affixed or if the wrong photo was used, the voter should approach the tahsildar concerned with his or her voter identity card.

The voters who had shifted residence should apply for the inclusion of their names in their new addresses, as their names would be deleted from the old list even if they had been issued with voter identity cards.

Old address compulsory

The old address and the voter identity card number should compulsorily be entered in such applications. The name of a person need not necessarily figure in the voters list merely because he had been issued a voter identity card.

The voters should, therefore, ensure that their names were there in the voters' list.

She said application forms for various purposes relating to the voters' list revision were available free-of-cost in taluk and village offices and polling stations.

Form 6 should be used for the inclusion of names and for the transfer of names from one constituency to another, form 7 for the deletion of names, form 8 for getting the mistakes in the voters' list corrected and form 8 A for shifting residence from one place to another in the same constituency.

The inclusion of names in more than one place in the voters' list was a punishable offence.

She sought the cooperation of everyone for preparing a foolproof voters list.

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