In Bengal, EC to turn lens on oddities in post-SIR voter roll
Kolkata, Dec. 18 -- More than a million voters in West Bengal were born when their parents were less than 15 years of age, data shared by the Election Commission has revealed.
While at least 1,076,981 voters have been identified whose age difference with their parents is less than 15 years, there is another set of 311,811 voters who were born when their grandparents were less than 40 years of age.
Neither is biological impossible - but the numbers look off.
A senior official of the poll panel who asked not to be named said that there are around 16.3 million voters who have "logical discrepancies" in their enumeration forms.
They have been divided into seven categories: those who have been mapped with more than six persons in the progeny mapping; those whose age difference with their parents is less than 15 years; those at least 45 years of age but whose name was absent in the 2002 list; those who show a mismatch in their father's names in the 2005 and 2002 lists; those whose age difference with grand parents is less than 40 years; voters whose age gap with parents is more than 50 years and voters whose sex doesn't match with the 2002 list. P6...
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