With new voters list is to be published now in February after completion of summary revision, state found 82 lakh new voters out of which 27 lakh will cast their vote for the first time. However, what is interesting is that members of fairer sex not started taking active part in the biggest democratic exercise with 82 lakh new voters contributed equal number of female while amongst first time voters, 12 lakh girls enrolled themselves in comparison to 15 lakh males. Names of 27 lakh voters have been also removed for various reasons. The ratio of women voters in comparison to males also increased from 815 to 826.
Giving above details here on Friday afternoon, Chief Electrol Officer (CEO) of UP Umesh Sinha claimed that to make the job easier for the voters, they updated entire data on their website and anyone could now check whether his name was enrolled or not, which booth has been allotted to them and they can also take out print of their voter slip having photograph to help them in casting vote. He said that the entire list of 13.53 crore voters in the State, they updated name along with photographs of the voters. He also appealed to the people that they also identified 90 lakh duplicate voters in the State, so everyone who changed their address or shifted to another place or get themselves enrolled at some other place also should check it and should apply on-line so their name can be removed from one place. He warned that duplicate voters who will not get their names removed would face legal action.
Umesh Sinha said that for awareness amongst the voters as they wanted everyone to use his right, they were organizing National Voters Day every year of January 25. He claimed that this year they will run rally from 7 diretions of the State in which they will organize street shows, songs,
distribute posters and pamphlets, organized competition etc to make people aware of their voting right and to motivate them to cast their vote at any cost. He said that as a part of awareness they will also organise competition comprising of slogans, paintings, street shows etc in which they will award to the winners. He claimed that their thrust will be on ethical voting. He said that they also facilitated the Election Commission site with a search engine through which any voter could get his full details on-line and even have it on their mobile phones just by sending SMS of their
Elector’s Photo Identity card ( EPIC) number and they get their voter slip on mobile. For the new voters they will provide colour Voter I-card.
Umesh Sinha claimed that for hassle free elections, they already directed all the district magistrates after formulating ``District Election Management Plan"that they should take all measures to ensure maximum voting by forwarding all kind of help to the voters particularly of old age. He said that they will run a `help line’ at every booth and would also cover all the hyper sensitive and important booths with electronic cameras so that anyone could watch the proceedings on-line. He said that they will also update voting percent at regular intervals on their site. A meeting will be also held under election commissioner on January 20 in lucknow to review the on-going exercise, informed Sinha.