Mass Voter Registration Drive on Sunday, April 8th in Bengaluru

by April 7, 2018 Governance

Electoral Rolls after the Summary Revisions have been published on 28 Feb 2018. However there is a last chance for citizens to register as voters. One can submit applications till 14th April, 2018.

The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka is organising a mass voter registration drive on Sunday 8th April, between 10 AM to 5 PM owing to many complaints by citizens regarding the non-inclusion in mother rolls. All booth level officers (BLO) will be stationed at the respective polling booths to receive applications of the residuary voters. 

This is the last chance for people to get registered so that they can vote in the upcoming elections. Visit the nearest Polling booths with 2 photos, date of birth proof and Address proof. You may fill Form-6; Take 2 print outs of filled form 6, submit one and take acknowledgement on another copy. Download the forms from http://voterreg.kar.nic.in.

The list of polling booths are available here: http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/BLOList_2017/Dist_List_Bang.aspx 

Citizens whose applications are under process can contact their ARO for status update.

Press Note shared by Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar. 

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  1. Prabhakar Rajagopal says:
    April 8, 2018 at 5:19 am

    Witting for registration. There is nobody in the office. Where do we go?

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