Officials in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district have been facing quite challenging circumstances. The officials are being questioned about the exercise of updating voter's lists and the terrible results it has produced.
The officials have had a hard time answering questions after two leaked pages of the updated lists showed photographs of an elephant, a pigeon, a deer and film actress Sunny Leone next to the name of residents of the district.
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Two pages from the list were leaked to the media where a picture of Sunny Leone appeared next to a 51 year old's name and a photo of an elephant was seen next to a 56 year old man's details.
In the two pages leaked to the media, the photos of Sunny Leone and an elephant against names of voters is deeply concerting. The updated voter lists has not been made public.?
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According to a report by NDTV, the leaked pages eventually made it to local journalists who sought a clarification from district officials.
A senior officer with the Ballia district administration said that this was done by one of their data entry operators who was recently transferred from a city area to a rural one.? "We have filed an FIR against this person and we are modifying these details" the official said.
Voter lists are being updated across Uttar Pradesh before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The data for the lists is provided by booth-level officers appointed by the district administration. This data is then entered and matched online by data entry operators. These errors were discovered by senior officials when this cross-checking of data was happening.