New Delhi, May 13 -- In its effort to sanitize the electoral rolls and keep them updated, Election Commission of India (ECI) has resolved a nearly 20-year-old legacy issue of similar EPIC numbers which got erroneously issued to genuine electors just because similar series were used by different Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) in such cases since 2005.

ECI Sources said that to resolve this long-pending problem, the entire electoral database of over 99-crore electors was searched by CEOs of all the 36 States/UTs and EROs of all the 4,123 Assembly constituencies across India in all the 10.50 lakh polling stations. On average, there are about 1000 electors per polling station.

The number of similar EPIC numbers found was minuscule, i...