[Reader-list] Alternative photo ID can be used for May 7 elections

[Taha Mehmood]

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Alternative photo ID can be used for May 7 elections

    * Monday, May 4, 2009, 14:02

New Delhi, May 4 (Inditop) Haven’t got an electors’ photo identity
card? Use your alternative photo identity proof and vote in Delhi May
7 for the Lok Sabha elections.

According to the Delhi chief electoral office, there are over 1.6
million people in the national capital who have not received their
photo identity cards.

“There are 1,665,097 voters in Delhi whose names appear in the
electoral roles in Delhi but have not received Electors Photo Identity
Cards (EPIC). They can carry any one among 13 alternative photo
identity cards and show it at the polling booth for exercising their
franchise,” deputy chief electoral officer (CEO) J.K. Sharma told
IANS.

A voter is allowed to exercise his/her franchise only after he/she
shows a photo identity card to a polling officer. Over 11 million
electors are eligible to cast their votes for the seven parliamentary
seats in Delhi May 7.

The documents that can be shown in place of EPIC include passports,
driving licences, income tax identity (PAN) cards, service identity
cards of the employees of state and central government, besides PSUs,
passbooks issued by banks and post offices.

Arms licence, physical handicap document, property documents such as
registered deed with photograph, pension document, SC/ST/OBC
certificates issued by a competent authority, freedom fighter identity
cards, job cards issued under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(NREGA) and health insurance scheme smart cards with photographs are
also valid as an alternate to EPIC.