Voter verification carried out

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE, JAN. 8. The door-to-door verification of the Form 6 received for inclusion in the voters list was completed in Coimbatore district on Sunday and a second verification on the voters, whose names were in the electoral rolls but their whereabouts not known, was carried out on Monday.

The re-check was ordered by the District Collector, Mr. G. Santhanam, to ensure that no name was deleted from the list in this suo motu deletion process, without a 100 per cent confirmation that the voter was either dead or has shifted out.

Out of the 42 Assembly Constituencies identified in the State for verification on claims for inclusion, seven were in Coimbatore district. The constituencies with the number of Form 6 received in brackets were: Coimbatore East (27,970), Coimbatore West (28,656), Singanallur (43,710), Thondamuthur (60032), Perur (50,123), Palladam (28,694) and Tirupur (46,630). As against the electorate strength on December 1, 2000, the number of Form 6 received for inclusion in the voters list was 2,85,815. The suo motu deletion of names from the electoral rolls would be done only after giving sufficient time for the voters to represent. A list of the names would be put up on the notice board at the office of the Revenue Divisional Officers. The date of publishing of the list would be informed. Seven days' time from the date of publishing would be given for the voters to represent their case, if their names should not be deleted from the electoral rolls.

Madurai

Cent per cent verification of voters in Madurai East, West, Tiruparankunram and Samayanallur Assembly segments of Madurai district is to be taken up from tomorrow as per the directive of the Election Commission.

According to the District Collector, Mr. V. Thangavelu, verification of applications for inclusion in electoral rolls had been completed on Friday in these constituencies prior to the dates fixed by the State's Chief Electoral Officer, Mr. Mrityunjay Sarangi. Further door-to-door verification would be undertaken from tomorrow for three days in these constituencies from where applications for inclusion in electoral rolls had exceeded 10 per cent of the electoral strength. Though the CEO had indicated that the verification would be extended upto Monday, the district administration had made a request to allow the exercise to go on from Tuesday to Thursday. He said about 16,000 applications in the Madurai East, 19,000 in Madurai West, 8,900 in Tiruparankunram and 7,500 in Samayanallur had been received for exclusion from the electoral rolls.

In Tiruparankunram constituency, 51,980 applications have been received for inclusion while the number is 43,729 in Samayanallur segment. In the Madurai East constituency, 18,714 applicants have sought inclusion and in the Madurai West, 22,796 applications have been received.

The Collector appealed to those who have shifted their residence after the last publication of revised electoral rolls on January 7, 2000, to approach the officials visiting the area for scrutiny or contact the Corporation Commissionr or the concerned Tahsildar for inclusion in or exclusion from electoral rolls.

Tiruchi

The 100 per cent verification of voters in Tiruchi I, Tiruchi II and Tiruverambur constituencies in Tiruchi district ordered by the Election Commission in view of the relatively high rate of claims for inclusion in the electoral rolls was almost over, according to officials sources. The officials maintained that according to present indications, the intensive verification may result in a deletion of about 20 per cent of voters.

In Tiruchi I and Tiruchi II constituencies, about 350 officials of the Corporation were on the job during the past three days, and the work was almost over by evening today. While the officials claimed that the verification officials had visited every dwelling, residents in pockets of Thillainagar, Cantonment, Karumandapam, Woriyur and Varahaneri maintained that none had visited their houses during the past few days for verification of the voters lists.

In Tiruchi I constituency having an electorate of 1,41,623, the offifcials had included 14,431 voters after the last round of application for inclusion, and deleted 3,581 voters. However, under the suo-moto powers of the returning officer, as many as 10,702 voters were removed from the list, in the past few weeks, bulk of them being those who had either migrated to other areas, or were dead, or whose names were found in the electoral rolls in other wards.

In Tiruchi II constituency, with an electorate of 2,21,609, the authorities had included 28,864 voters in the list, and removed from the rolls 5,179. However, under the suo motu powers, the authorities had removed 20,278 voters from the list.

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