India, Dec. 19 -- LUCKNOW As the three-tier panchayat provisional electoral roll was finalised on Thursday, the State Election Commission, Uttar Pradesh (SEC UP), announced that all voters will get unique IDs to check duplication of votes.

"The state voter number (SVN) will be given to each panchayat voter in the state. It will be a 9-letter alpha-numeric ID. The first three letters will be block number (UP has 826 blocks), the next letter will reflect whether the voter is a male or female and five digits as serial number of voter in the block," said Raj Pratap Singh, state election commissioner, panchayat and local bodies (UP), sharing the progress of voter list revision on Thursday.

This, he said, will help track voters each time they...