India, March 19 -- The sanctity of one eligible citizen, one vote forms the foundation of India's electoral democracy - it is against this verity that the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s move to link the Elector Voter Identification Card (EPIC) to Aadhaar needs to be seen. Aadhaar's biometric-based verification establishes a person's identity with near infallibility, and to that end, a centralised EPIC database being mapped against voters' Aadhaar can serve several authentication ends - from deduplication of EPICs for the same individual to getting rid of any fake EPIC in circulation. Duplicate EPICs have been at the centre of many complaints by political parties over the inviolateness of the electoral process in the country. Such co...