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The Registration Drives for Voter ID Card Application There are Voter ID Card and Voter Awareness Drives going on for in Bihar and

Gujarat. In Bihar, the Drive aims at new voter application whereas in Gujarat, this

drive has a political motive. The Election Commission of India is an organization that looks after the voters as

well as the elections. For voters, it works in such a way that they have least

number of difficulties with Voter ID Card Application process. Consequently

ensuring a high voter turnout. This high turnout is hence achieved when most of

the citizens are registered as voters. When this registration process has minimal

loopholes and discrepancies, the number of those who are registered is

automatically increased. So this is one of the duties of the commission as far as the

voters are concerned.

The duties of the commission towards elections are to make them totally free andfair. Such duties lead the commission to make sure that there is no bogus voting,

no votes for cash, no practice of booth capture, no unfair campaigning and no

denial of voting rights to those who are eligible. One of the fundamental aims of the ECI is making every legitimate citizen a

registered voter. For this, the people working for the commission always ensure

that the grievances of voters are looked upon with seriousness. Apart from the

grievances of voters, the ECI also looks forward to improve the infrastructure that

functions to register new voters. Introduction of Online Methods for Voter ID Card

Applications is one of the landmarks with respect to their aim of to registermaximum voters. With the Voter ID Card Online process, people can now become

registered voters from the comforts of their homes and offices.

Voter Registration Drives Apart from the fundamental aims, the work for which is carried out at ECI offices

throughout the year, there are some functions of the commission that make it more

active just before the elections. With the Lok Sabha Elections for 2014 just around

the corner, the ECI has thus become highly active once again in order to register

the maximum number of new voters before the elections commence. The proof of this increased activity could be gained from the ongoing Voter

Registration Drives for Voter ID Card Bihar and Voter ID Card Gujarat. These drives

aim at revising the voters’ list to an extent where almost all those who are alive

and still living in the same constituency remain in the electoral list of that

constituency and those who have passed away or shifted to other assemblies be

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removed from the concerned voters’ list. Alongside revising the electoral rolls, these Voter Registration Drives for Voter ID

Card Bihar and Gujarat aim at issuing fresh EPICs and verifiable voter slips to all

the eligible voters so that none of them are denied an entry to polling booth.

Voter Registration Drive For Voter ID Card Bihar This is the second leg of fresh Voter ID Card issuance drive in Bihar. This drive also

aims at receiving fresh applications for Voter ID Cards alongside the process of

receiving requests for removal or inclusion of certain names into the Voters’ Lists of

the constituencies in Bihar. Started on the 17th of January, this New Voter

Registration process would go on till the date of receiving the application of

nominations of the candidates who wish to contest the election.  The first revised electoral list, the revision drive for which had been carrying onsince September 2013 was to be released on the 16th of January. The second

revised list would soon follow corresponding to the present Voter registration drive

for Voter ID Card Bihar.

This time the Voters would receive verifiable Voter Slips 2 or 3 days prior to the

election day. These voter slips could very well be used as the means for identity

verification required to gain access to the polling booth. Therefore in case a voter

forgets to bring his Voter ID Card, he would be able to enter the polling booth by

showing the received voter slip. Voter Awareness Drives in Gujarat Meanwhile for Voter ID Card Gujarat, there is very little news about such a Voter

Registration Drive. Although the voters may very well be in touch with the CEO

Office in order to know details about such drives which aim at increasing Voter

turnouts and reducing the discrepancies within the democracy.

Whereas there is a special type of voter awareness drive that is going on in this

state. This drive is being carried out by a political party. Yes, this drive is tables

apart from the one carried out by the ECI in Bihar. The Voter Awareness drive inGujarat is being carried out by the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) in order to make people

aware of their agendas and ideology.

Although such a drive does not do anything for the Voter ID Card Gujarat, but still

it could arguably be a boon for the democracy, provided that such a drive a drive is

conducted by all the contesting parties. This way there would be perfect

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competition during the elections with voters being completely enlightened about the

different choices they have. In this way, this would be a winning situation for the

citizens as well as the parties. Therefore there are two aspects of such voter aimed

drives. With such such voter registration and voter awareness drives, the ElectionCommission tends to reach closer to its aim of a cent-percent voter turnout and

therefore catalyze the functioning of the democracy which requires all of its

subjects to keep up their opinion and hence elect a party that is representative of a

general choice and not just an idea of a few.