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India: Not On The Voter List

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 @ 18:57 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Elections, Governance
Languages:: English

“There are many I know who won’t be able to vote because their name is not on the electoral rolls”, wrote Rajesh Jain in his blog. Later during the day when the blogger went to vote in South Mumbai, he found that his name was missing in the Voter list.

1 comment

Monika

I had the most frustrating experience yesterday, while trying to excerise my right to vote…i don’t want to take this lying down, what is it that i can do …anyone with any answers…

# 2009-05-8 at 6:50 am

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