During Intensive Revision of electoral rolls which normally takes place once in five years, a draft roll is prepared after house to house enumeration and published at every polling booth location for inviting claims and objections. Any eligible person can file claim in Form No. 6 for inclusion of his/her name in the roll or raise an objection to somebody's name or for deletion of his/her or any other person's name in Form No. 7. Similarly if any particulars in the electoral roll are to be modified such as name, house number, middle name, last name, age, sex, epic number etc. a claim in Form No. 8 can be filed. In case any elector has changed his house from the polling area of one booth to other booth in the same Assembly Constituency he/she can file application in Form No. 8A for change/transposition from one electoral part to the other part. During Summary revision of electoral rolls which takes place every year, the existing electoral rolls are published at each polling booth location to invite claims and objections for inclusion, deletion, modification and transposition. After due enquiry all the claims and objections are decided and a supplementary electoral roll is prepared and published. Even after the final publication of electoral rolls the process of continuous updation of electoral rolls goes on and the citizens are free to file any application for the addition, deletion, modification and transposition with the Electoral Registration Officer. As per the law, a voter's name can be registered up to the last date of filing nominations by candidates that have been notified by the Election Commission for any general election or bye-election to an Assembly or Parliament. To enable the Electoral Registration Officer to take action on the application, one must apply at least ten days before the last date of making nominations as he has to mandatorily invite objections by giving a seven clear days notice before including the name in the roll. If one applies later than ten clear days before the last date for nominations, the name may not be included for the purposes of that particular election. |