Handbook for Electoral Registration Officers - Election Commission ...

give a declaration that either his name has not been included in the Electoral Roll for thatparticular Constituency in which he seeks enrolment or any other Constituency or that hisname may have been included in the Electoral Roll of a particular constituency to bespecifically mentioned by him in his application in which he was ordinarily residentearlier at the address mentioned in the application and, if so, he requests that the samemay be excluded from that electoral roll. ERO should inform the ERO of the otherConstituency and that other ERO shall, on receipt of the information, strike out theapplicant’s name from the relevant part of the roll of the constituency under hisjurisdiction and send intimation to the ERO of the constituency where the electorhas shifted.27. The word ‘entry’ under Section 22 will refer not only to the entries in the roll fordescribing an elector but also the various other particulars of the elector or other detailswhich are mentioned in each part of the roll, like, name, age, sex, relationship, photo,address, the number of the part, description of the area to which it relates, headings of thecolumn, footnotes, etc. In case a person has changed his name subsequent to the finalpublication of the roll, he should prefer an application with relevant evidence for changeof his name under Section 22 on the ground that the entry in the roll has becomedefective.Deletion of Names28. Under Section 22 of the RPA, 1950, the ERO has the power to delete on his ownmotion any entry in the Electoral Roll on the ground that a person has been registered inthe roll for more than one Constituency or in the same Electoral Roll more than once. Butbefore taking such action he must satisfy himself in each case about the identity of theelector concerned. Where the ERO deletes the name of an elector from the electoral rollof his Constituency on the ground that the elector’s name has been enrolled in anotherconstituency, he shall immediately inform the ERO of the other constituency that theelector’s name has been deleted from his constituency. This is to avoid the deletion ofname of the elector from the other constituency also on an application for deletion orotherwise.29. It is very important that proper enquiry and verification should be made beforedeleting a person’s name from the electoral roll. The Officer ordering deletion shouldpersonally satisfy himself that the deletion is justified because the right to vote, which is astatutory right, is taken away by such deletion.30. After the roll has been finally published, the provisions of suo-motu deletionshould not be resorted to except in confirmed death cases, that too with documentaryevidence. This is because after final publication of rolls, there is no express provision ofpublication of the changes made during continuous updation and persons whose nameshave been deleted suo-moto by the ERO may not even come to know that their nameshave been deleted.68