Though the Election Commission claims to revise electoral rolls before every major election, more than 8 lakh ‘ghost’ voters have been detected in Punjab in the past five months. The ‘ghost’ or duplicate voters came to light during the linking of Aadhaar cards with elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs).
Though the process of linking the Aadhaar card with an individual’s EPIC was stalled following the Supreme Court order on August 11, the office of the Punjab electoral officer claimed to have linked 80% of the electoral rolls by then.Punjab has 1.92 crore voters according to the electoral rolls released by the Election Commission on January 2 last year.