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"The election department doesn't have the necessary setup required to identify bogus voters on a such a huge scale. MUMBAI: The Mumbai Congress on Friday demanded a probe into an alleged 'fake voters' scam, urging the election authorities to investigate it to weed out bogus names from electoral rolls.City Congress President Sanjay Nirupam led a delegation to Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer Ashwani Kumar and urged him that the publication of the draft electoral rolls, expected on Jan 31, be postponed till all bogus names are deleted. Election officers must visit each constituency and weed out fake voters before publishing the draft electoral rolls," Nirupam said.On Wednesday, the Congress claimed that around 9 lakh bogus voters may have sneaked into the city's electoral rolls, providing evidence for the charge.It said thousands of allegedly bogus voters, totaling 9 lakh, were found in the electoral rolls of different assembly segments in the city, with a single person having multiple voter IDs for different election booths in the same constituency. "This is a massive organized crime. "In some cases, the same person is shown under two different names, with differing ages, residing at two separate addresses and linked to different voting booths within the same constituency," Nirupam said, displaying the relevant proofs.However, the Maharashtra State Election Commission (M-SEC) officials said the work of preparing electoral rolls is dealt with solely by the Election Commission of India through respective district collectorates..