Informing this to media persons here on Friday, Deputy Commissioner M Maheshwar Rao said the re-verification drive was “intended to clean the voters’ list”. As the revision of electoral rolls conducted in between December 22 and January 4 has been declared invalid, the district will witness another door-to-door survey. In order to carry out the fresh survey, booth-level officers and nodal officers have been appointed. Each booth will have an officer, while there will be one nodal officer for every 10 booths and a supervisor for every 30 booths.
The present door-to-door survey provides an opportunity to delete the undeserving names, the names of those who are dead, or shifted their residence to other places due to employment and marriage. People, who are yet to enter the voters’ list will also get an opportunity to add their names, Mr Rao said. No individual’s name should appear twice in the electoral roll, which is an offense.
If such instances are there, individuals should rectify the same during the fresh drive. Otherwise, they will be subjected to imprisonment and fine as per the Section 31 of People’s Representative Act 1950, he warned.
In order to add fresh names to the list, one need to fill Form-6 and submit to the authorities concerned with certificate of residence and birth; in order to drop a name from the list, the head of the family should inform the same through Form-7; in order to have corrections, one need to submit the same in Form-8; or if one has migrated to another part of the same constituency, he should apply through Form-8A. The DC said the voters’ list has been published in the website www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in, and the electorate can clear their doubts by referring to it.
Headquarters Assistant Prabhakar Sharma was also present in the press conference.