After a major gaffe by the district election department prevented lakhs of citizens from voting during the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, one would assume that the district administration would be careful that a similar fiasco be avoided ahead of the approaching state assembly polls.

Many citizens had angry confrontations with officials when they found their names missing from the voters’ list and were not allowed to cast their vote during the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year. File pic

Yet again however, several citizens have come forward with the complaint that they could not find their name on the list of registered voters despite searching on the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) website.