VIJAYAWADA: You don't expect a 352-year-old man to be alive and fit enough to stand in a queue to cast his vote in an election. But a detailed study of the electoral rolls of Andhra Pradesh on the website of the Election Commission's state unit has found at least one individual in Vizag who has set a world record of being alive for the past three-and-a-half centuries!This is just one of thousands of discrepancies that Thummala Lokeshwar Reddy, a software engineer and alumni of IIM, Bangalore and his team have found after analysing the rolls. The study has found that about 15% entries are either invalid, illegal, duplicate or repeated. Such a huge margin of error is enough to swing the mandate in any election. Of the 3.6 crore registered voters in Andhra Pradesh, Reddy and his team have put the number of affected voters at 52.67 lakh.According to the study, there are more than 25 lakh entries where the voter's name and that of the father or husband, are correct, but other details are wrong. The research also found thousands of irregularities pertaining to one person having two votes on the same voter ID, invalid house numbers, and dual votes in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Also, not only did the team find thousands of voters above the age of 100, they also came across thousands who are 'underage'. Among the irregularities, verified by TOI on the Election Commission's website, is a one-year-old 'eligible' voter from Nellore city.Software engineer Thummala Lokeshwar Reddy who has spent 15 years in data analytics, has worked with IT majors in California and in the UK.“It is the responsibility of the Election Commission to ensure that democracy doesn’t succumb to irregularities,” he told TOI on Tuesday.The Election Commission had given time between September 1 and October 31 for filing claims and objections, and they have received around 30 lakh applications. Most of them were new voters applying for their voter identification cards..

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