EC posts electoral rolls in non-searchable image files

Bengaluru | Tuesday | 21st November, 2017

Summary:

But to his frustration, the Election Commission in the State has once again published the draft electoral rolls in a non-searchable PDF image format, instead of PDF Text format. Not the first timeThis is not the first time that electoral rolls have been published as PDF image files with Captcha protection. Thus, the draft rolls published in the State is in violation of the EC manual,” read the the memorandum submitted by activists. more-inWhat is the point of publishing draft electoral rolls if voters are unable to search the millions of entries for their names and file objections, if necessary? The leadership of the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka was recently changed..