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.