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[Ray @Raybomyar]

NO Voter is left behind is the tag of the CEC…will they be left behind ? The two ladies happen to be my mother and sister .

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[Ray @Raybomyar]

How to Disenfranchise a Voter?
Two women—aged 85 & 55—shifted from West Bengal to Maharashtra in 2012 voted in multiple elections there. Now, due to a frozen “mapping error” in the Election Commission’s database, both face losing their voting rights. A true story…

[Ray @Raybomyar]

Voting feels less like a right, more like a lottery against database errors. The system takes it away, then suggests a way out—without assurance it won’t fail again.

[Ray @Raybomyar]

We’ve seen “illogical mapping” errors before—like parents & children deleted due to absurd age gaps. If this can happen to two women, how many more could be affected? Lakhs?

[Ray @Raybomyar]

The only advice given: reapply via Form 6 in June. But this doesn’t solve the frozen mapping issue. Meanwhile, honest citizens—taxpayers, pensioners—are forced to prove residency & citizenship all over again.

[Ray @Raybomyar]

Officials in both states admit it’s a system error. West Bengal says “we can’t unmap post-January.” Maharashtra says “we can’t map unless you’re unmapped.” Result: both women risk disenfranchisement.

[Ray @Raybomyar]

In 2025, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal removed them from rolls—but the system mapping wasn’t deleted. Now, during Maharashtra’s ongoing SIR, BLOs say: “You’re mapped in Bengal, so we can’t map you here.”

[Ray @Raybomyar]

In 2002, both were on West Bengal rolls. After moving to Maharashtra in 2012, they applied afresh, got into the local voter roll , and voted in Lok Sabha, Vidhan Sabha & BMC elections.