India, Oct. 21 -- Duplicate entries flagged in Uttar Pradesh's electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), including cases involving multiple applications by the same voter, have again brought the issue of duplicate registrations to the fore.

On October 20, Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa directed district election officials to identify such cases through booth-level officers (BLOs) and resolve them under prescribed procedures ahead of the next draft electoral roll scheduled for November 12.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has used digital databases, software-based matching and field verification to identify duplicate entries. Here are the key measures it has taken:

The use of ECINET

The p...