BALEWA, Dec 11: The Election Commission is conducting a special campaign to register the names of the voters who are yet to enroll in Baglung district. The District Election Office is organizing the campaign that will run until late December.
While people who go to the District Election Office and register themselves in the voters' list during the special campaigns or at other times, no one is interested in removing the name of a deceased family member from the list. Following the death of a voter, a form has to be filled to remove his/her name from the list. "The number of people who come to remove the name of a deceased person is nil," said District Election Officer Narayan Dutta Sharma Dhungana.
Names of deceased not removed from voters’ list
As this facility can be availed only from the District Election Office, people find it time consuming. Political parties have urged the office to launch a campaign to remove the names of deceased voters. "There must be a provision to remove the name of deceased from voters list at the time of registration of death, which is done at the municipality level," said Harihar Sharma, secretary of the Nepali Congress Baglung.
According to Gokul Sharma, Information Officer at the District Election Office, the names of the deceased have not been removed from the database. "The deceased voters list is updated only when we conduct campaigns at a public level. At other times, we lack human and other resources. Also, no one comes to the office to remove the deceased people's name from the voter’s list,” he said.
