State Electoral office, Haryana has started its preparations for the lok Sabha elections 2014. Srikant Walgad, Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana the first level checking of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) has been started and is being carried out in the presence of BEl engineer, staff and representatives of Deputy Commissioner concerned. The fully checked EVMs would be used for voting during elections.
For the first time, State Election department has introduced specially designed ‘PVC EPIC’ to about eight lakh new voters during revision of electoral rolls in the State, to prevent duplication and forging of the Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC). Walgad said it has numbers of security features like information and government logos of the new EPIC would be visible only in ultraviolet light, besides this, it has barcode to prevent duplication, forging and tampering. Though, new PVC EPIC cards would be issued to only the new voters in future as mandated by Election Commission of India, yet those people can also obtain new PVC EPIC cards, who had lost their old laminated cards at the cost of Rs 25 per new Voter ID card.
Haryana has registered a marginal increase in gender ratio during summary revision of photo electoral rolls as it has increased to 847 in 2014 whereas the same was 839 in 2013 and 837 in 2012. The gender ratio of about eight lakh new voters added during revision 2014 is 930.