R Lester Makang<\/p>\n
UKHRUL, October 23: More than 1000 cases of duplicate voters have so far been detected out of the 2046 possible cases of double\/multiple entries which were sorted from the overall electoral list of Ukhrul district recently.<\/p>\n
An official source of the Ukhrul District Election office today informed Imphal Free Press that as per the directive from the Election Commission of India (ECI) cross-verification of electoral voters`\u2122 list has been continuing in the district since September last. <\/p>\n
A total of 2046 voters`\u2122 names were accordingly sorted out on suspicion of duplication, it continued while adding that: `it is confirmed that so far more than 50 per cent are duplicate or double entries while some simply cases of identical images and the rest awaiting cross-examination.`\u009d<\/p>\n
At the same time, as per the text based duplicate report of the State data, the sources further disclosed, a large chunk of hill district voters`\u2122 names including those from Ukhrul have been found entered in various parts of valley assembly constituencies of the State.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the sources have informed that a special review drive for errorless electoral lists has begun from October 15 and would continue till November 10, 2014. `During this period enrolment of names, correction of particulars of voters and other changes could be made,`\u009d it added.<\/p>\n\n