Large-scale goof-ups in electoral rolls and voter applications denied several hundreds an opportunity to cast their vote in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) elections on Tuesday. At many centres, presiding officers informed that 10-20% people who turned up to vote returned disappointed. While names of many voters were missing on the electoral rolls, many others got confused with the different information provided by voter applications and websites. Many became victims of the new ward system and could not find their polling booths. Unlike previous elections, most of them didn’t receive the voting slips. After struggling for hours to find his booth, Prakash Khandelwal gave up. “First, I went to a school in Ramdaspeth where I had voted during the last Vidhan Sabha elections. The officials couldn’t find my name and gave me a handwritten chit, asking me to go to Gandhi Nagar Hindi Prathmik Shala where too my name was still missing,” he said.
65-year-old Ranjit Khare, a resident of Venuvan Society, left his home at 7am to cast vote. Till 1pm, he was struggling. “After I shifted my residence, I had applied for a change of address. But I can’t find my name anywhere,” he said.
Satish Somankar and his wife’s name was visible online but went missing from the voting list. Akshay Nikhare too saw his name on the mobile app but couldn’t find it at the centre.
Sheikh Sabir Sheikh Turab, who couldn’t spot his name, was allotted a serial number and sent to Tata Parsee School, only to find “someone else’s name was written in front of that number”. On the government website, voting centre for Arvind Kumar Raturi and his family was stated as ‘badminton hall, Anant Nagar’. “There was no such place in that area. After hours, we found a badminton hall some kilometres away,” he said.
Full Article: NMC polls: Mismatch in data on website, apps and electoral rolls irks voters | Nagpur News – Times of India.