NEW DELHI, Oct. 20 -- Uttar Pradesh's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has said that repeated applications submitted by a voter can result in the generation of multiple Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPICs), and maintaining that periodic deduplication is actively carried out to purge duplicate entries from the electoral rolls.

The comment by the CEO's handle on social media platform X came during an exchange with fact-checker Mohammed Zubair who flagged a case where a voter whose name was allegedly missing from the draft electoral roll, submitted applications and received multiple voter ID cards.

The UP CEO's office disputed Zubair's account, but acknowledged that multiple EPICs can be generated when the same individual submits multiple fo...