Voters face tough time finding name on electoral rolls

Citizens have been exhorted to vote by parties, NGOs and newspapers. If only it was that easy. Finding your name on the electoral rolls canu00a0often be a backbreaker, as reported by theu00a0Times of India.

The electoral office at Elphinstone Technical School at Metro is a case in point. The floor is strewn with forms and pages out of electoral rolls and a bunch of overworked and apathetic officers serve voters frantically registering before the deadline of April 1.

A Colaba resident who did not wish to be named unsuccessfully searched the rolls for his registration details. As he lives in a building called Shah House, he said he was made to leaf through a list of all buildings in south Mumbai that began with the letter "S".

"The building names were written in a handwritten ledger, not in alphabetical order. Several pages were torn or missing,'' he said. "I couldn't find my building on the list and when I asked the officer, he said he didn't know what he would do."

Another Colaba resident, Deepa Shah, couldn't locate her voter details either. "The officers are clueless," she said. "They told me to check the website. What about those who don't have access to the internet?"