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Author(s):  
Ujjwal Kumar Singh ◽  
Anupama Roy

The ECI is a constitutional body entrusted with the responsibility of giving effect to the principle of equality of the citizen-voter, ensuring that no eligible voter was excluded from the electoral rolls on grounds of religion, race, caste, or gender. This role has unfolded in uneven and contradictory ways, made manifest in those contexts where the ECI has been implicated in disputes over citizenship. Disputes over electoral rolls show that the responsibility of superintending the preparation of electoral rolls has, in specific contexts, translated into the power of the ECI to identify legitimate voters and to sift out citizens from non-citizens. In addition, a stern adherence to procedures in contexts of suspicious increase of voters, has also led the ECI on a collision course with specific state governments. This chapter examines the ‘vote’ as a dynamic expression of inclusion, and also studies in this context the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme—a relatively recent innovation by the Election Commission—to register voters and educate them to cast an informed vote. This has been done through a field study in a district in Jammu region.


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