Election Commission sets up Voters' Service Portal

The Election Commission has set up a National Voters’ Services Portal with facilities to search the voters’ name in the electoral roll and the address of polling station and to locate the polling station on the Google map. The Portal will also provide contact details of the electoral staff and list the electoral roll of any particular polling station. The same facility is also being made available through an integrated mobile App.

Further, to ensure a continuous link of electors with the election machinery, Commission has decided to launch first-ever-Information Gateway on web portal, mobile App and through SMS, to keep the electors of the area informed of the relevant happenings during the entire election period. The key information conveyed will include the schedule of election for the constituency, details of the nominations received, final list of contesting candidates, reminder about the date of poll and the results on the counting date.

Besides, the Commission has taken the initiative to provide e-voter information slip thorough web portal and also on mobile App to enable the voters’ to take a print out of their electoral roll entries without photograph, which along with the EPIC or any other alternate identification document, as decided by the Commission, may be used in locating the elector’s entry in marked copy of electoral roll to expedite the voting process at the polling station.