For the First Time- Voter ID Card with photo in Assam

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The main purpose of your Voter ID Card and name in the Voters’ List is to gain you access to the polling booth. Getting an access to the Electronic Voting Machine or the ballot box is of utmost priority for the considerate citizens who take out some time from their totally busy schedules to cast a vote for the betterment of the nation. Therefore, the process of allowing access to the polling booth is something which should be done with utmost care and the least number of errors.

The access to the polling booth is granted upon due verification of the identity of the citizen whose name is listed in the Voters’ List, which in turn is done by filling Voter ID Card Application Forms by the citizens. Both of these are so important for the whole election process that any error or discrepancy is totally undesirable. Hence the use of Electors’ Photo Identity Cards and Photo Voters’ List help reduce the possibilities of letting the wrong person cast a vote and hence distort the results.

Whenever a voter reaches the polling station, the polling officer instantly checks his/her name in the Voters’ List and then asks for their legitimate identity document so that it could be verified that the person in the list and the person presenting the document are the same and hence make sure that there is no forgery or bogus voting. One could imagine how an Electoral Roll with Photographs and Voter ID Card with the picture of the voter would make this verification easier and relatively error free.

Although there was one State that was deprived of such an ease of verification of voters. In Assam, the Voter ID Cards and Voters’ Lists with photographs were not available even till the last elections. Thereby giving an idea about the scope for error and d...

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So are you a registered voter in Assam yet? In order to benefit from the photo Voter ID Cards and Voters’ List in Assam, you need be a registered voter. To become one, you would have to fill the voter id card application form 6.

You can download this voter registration form in Bengali, Assamese or English from the CEO Website of Assam. Here is the link that would redirect you to the page from which you can download the Voter ID Card Form 6 for inclusion of name into the Voters’ List:- http://ceoassam.nic.in/formsdownload.html

Already Registered?

If you are already a registered voter in Assam, you may contact your BLO for information about your Photo Voter ID Card. In case you want to check your name in the Voters’ List of you constituency, here is the link to it(Proceed after selecting you Assembly Constituency):-
http://ceoassam.nic.in/electoralroll.html

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