With the chaos during the Lok Sabha polls, when many in the city could not vote because their names were not in the voters’ list, still fresh in the minds of city voters, the Election Commission is pulling out all stops to prevent a repeat despite nearly 1 lakh new voters being added in the island city itself.

The number of voters in the city has climbed from 23.83 lakh during the Lok Sabha elections to 24,57,583. Not only has the EC not deleted names of any voters in the last two months, it has ensured that 90% of the voters have their photos in the voters’ list so that they don’t have to produce an ID card to be able to vote.