Think about you’re making an inventory of all of your classmates, however some names get deleted by mistake. Now you’ll want to examine everybody’s ID playing cards to ensure the checklist is correct. That’s type of what’s occurring in Bihar earlier than the state elections.

The Supreme Courtroom mentioned folks can use Aadhaar (the nationwide ID) to show they belong on the voter checklist. The issue? Aadhaar isn’t good—generally it has errors, and the businesses that helped construct it weren’t correctly checked. However as a result of it’s used in every single place—from getting a SIM card to a fuel connection—it’s turn out to be tremendous vital.

On high of that, polling cubicles (the locations the place folks vote) have been reorganized. Every sales space ought to now have not more than 1,200 voters as an alternative of 1,500. So, the variety of cubicles went up from about 77,000 to nearly 1,00,000! Which means new numbering, new employees, and many confusion. The officers in cost (referred to as BLOs) solely have 15 days to kind out paperwork from the earlier officers.

Regardless that voters’ names are saved digitally, many paperwork are nonetheless in paper kind. With all of the renumbering and shifting, issues are messy. Some folks worry Aadhaar may even let in pretend voters, whereas others say with out Aadhaar, actual voters may get disregarded.

The large lesson? Expertise and fast fixes can’t resolve all the things. If there isn’t sufficient time to fastidiously examine the voter checklist, the entire course of can turn out to be an enormous mess—like shedding depend in the course of a math take a look at.

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