Four people from my house have been shown as deceased in the voter list. My name, my wife’s name and my two sons’ names are missing. We have always voted. Don’t know why our names were removed this time. We are labourers, how can we keep running around to get our names added again?

This is the concern of Garib Ram, a resident of Dumri village in West Champaran. His name was marked in the list of deceased people in the Election Commission’s draft voter list. Along with him, 14 others from the village faced the same issue. Officials had said the error would be corrected in the final list. But even after the final list was released on September 30, the names of all 15, including Garib Ram, were removed.

Earlier, Bhaskar had reported such irregularities in the draft voter list. Three major e

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