Panic, distress in Bengal as EC website shows all voters ‘under adjudication’: Trinamool MP
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The Election Commission website incorrectly showed that all voters in West Bengal are under adjudication in the claims process of the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls, the Trinamool Congress alleged on Wednesday.
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This has caused panic among the voters, the party claimed.
While the problem was later resolved, it highlighted the “serious technical glitches and faulty software” used by the poll panel, party MP Mahua Moitra said.
“How can a software maintained with taxpayers’ money be so error-prone and unreliable?” Moitra asked on social media. “What concrete steps has the Election Commission taken to fix these recurring issues? Instead of addressing matters of such grave importance that affect millions of voters, the Vanish Commission is busy enabling [the Bharatiya Janata Party].”
West Bengal is among the 12 states and Union Territories where the special intensive revision of the electoral roll was undertaken.
On February 28, the Election Commission published the final electoral roll for West Bengal, showing that more than 61 lakh voters had been excluded.
However, the process continued with about 60 lakh “doubtful and pending” cases remaining “under adjudication” based on their objections to their exclusions from the draft rolls published in December.
On Monday, a batch of names approved by judicial officers was added to the rolls through the first supplementary list...