KOLKATA: Amid allegations that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been indiscriminately issuing notices for hearings on claims and objections to the draft electoral roll in West Bengal, the Commission has explained why the number of cases flagged as “logical discrepancies” in the state is unusually high.
The ECI has identified around 94 lakh “logical discrepancy” cases in West Bengal. Such cases refer to anomalies detected during progeny mapping, where implausible or inconsistent family relationships appear in voter records.
Officials in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, cited several examples to illustrate how fake voters attempted to retain their names on the electoral roll by falsely linking themselves to unrelated genuine voters.