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Pune: With Maharashtra Assembly polls in the next month, the Kolhapur and Sangli districts administration have decided to distribute duplicate voter ID cards to nearly 5.5 lakh people whose documents were damaged or lost during floods last month. Over 1.5 lakh duplicate voter ID cards have been printed for distribution among these villages." In Sangli, over two lakh duplicate voter IDs have been distributed by the authorities to people from Shirala, Walwa, Palus and Miraj tehsils, which were severely affected by floods. An official from Sangli district administration said, "Assuming that people living in these flood-ravaged areas might have misplaced their important documents, we had sought over four lakh duplicate voter IDs. So far, we have received over 3.8 lakh duplicate voter IDs and more than two lakh of these have been distributed among people.".