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Supplementary rolls released

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45,000 names did not figure in last year’s draft photo roll

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all attention: Residents check the supplementary rolls of voters at the Tambaram taluk office on Thursday. —

TAMBARAM: The Supplementary Rolls of voters of Alandur and Tambaram constituencies was released on Thursday. The rolls have the names of about 45,000 voters who were not in the Integrated Draft Photo Electoral Roll that was published on December 3 last year.

The Integrated Draft Photo Electoral Rolls consisted of the names of about 3.58 lakh voters and 6.25 lakh voters in Alandur and Tambaram Assembly constituencies respectively. The voters were given two weeks to apply for inclusions, deletions and corrections.

Following the receipt of about 45,000 applications, they were processed and the Supplementary Rolls released, officials of the Kancheepuram district administration said, adding copies of this roll were kept on display at Tambaram taluk office, municipal offices at Tambaram, Pallavaram and Alandur, Chennai Corporation’s Zonal offices in the two constituencies and the Designated Polling Locations.

The objective was to create a mechanism to ensure that each voter was in possession of Electors’ Photo Identity Card as both the Central and State Election Commissions wanted to conduct free and fair elections and prevent bogus voting. Among the nine Assembly constituencies in Kancheepuram district, the number of voters without photo card was highest in Tambaram and Alandur.

Following the Assembly elections in 2006, the drive to prepare a list of voters with identity cards and those without them was started. Four checklists were prepared which culminated in the publishing of the Photo Electoral Rolls in December. The officials also added that they would resume the task of including those voters whose names figured neither in the Photo Electoral Rolls nor the Supplementary Rolls in about a month’s time.

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