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If you thought getting a voter ID card was really tough, let me tell you why not!

Eligibility

In order to register to vote, you need to be:

• A citizen of India
• Above 18 years of age
• Ordinary resident in your current place of residence

If you fulfil all of the above criteria, you need to fill in a registration form in order to include your name on the voter list.

There are 2 ways to address a systemic anomaly - we can pretty things up outwardly so the system looks better than it functions or we can go to the logical beginning and build a strong foundation and then worry about dressing it up. The Bengaluru Electoral System Transformation (B.E.S.T.) project takes the latter approach to address the alarmingly high error rates in our electoral rolls (a baseline survey by Janaagraha pegged the error rate at over 50%).