Kolkata, Dec 4 || The Election Commission of India has identified three polling booths in West Bengal which do not have a single “self” voter. A voter in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the ECI is considered a “self” if he or she has his or her name in the voters’ list for 2002, the base year for the ongoing revision exercise.
In these three booths, 100 per cent of the voters are “progeny” voters, sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, have said.
A voter is considered a “progeny” voter if his or her parents’ names appear on the voters’ list for 2002.
Considering it a near-impossible scenario, the ECI has directed a fresh review of the situation in all three booths.
The first such questionable booth is Part Number 110 under Dinhata Assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district, where not a single voter among the 782 is a “self” voter.