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20.3 lakh new voters registered, claims Election Commission

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The state election commission has claimed it has registered close to 20.3 lakh new voters ahead of the assembly polls scheduled for October. The registration process is still on.

Sources said, that so many could be enrolled was the outcome of EC's elaborate drive to facilitate participation of people in the poll process. The EC had drawn flak during the recent Lok Sabha polls over names of thousands of electors being deleted from voters' list.

In an unprecedented move, EC sent over 26 lakh letters along with enrolment forms to people in Mumbai, Thane and Pune whose names had been deleted.

"Of the speed posts sent, 4.5 lakh were delivered and the rest returned undelivered as the addresses were incorrect or the addressee had left," EC said.

As a result of such massive efforts, around 20.3 lakh electors were enrolled during the Special Summary Revision in Maharashtra, including 1.94 lakh in Mumbai and 2.66 lakh in Pune, it said.

"Of these, only 16,614 cases in Mumbai and 27,542 in Pune were related to those whose names had earlier been deleted," an EC statement said.

The final roll has been put up on the website of chief electoral officers and returning officers, it said.

The EC said it has been taking a series of proactive measures to reach out to citizens under its flagship programme for Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation.

"In case the name of any eligible citizen has still not been enrolled, s/he can include his/her name up to 10 days before the last date of nomination of candidates for the coming assembly elections," the Commission said.

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