Aadhaar must sync with voter IDs to empower citizens | The Indian Express

Aadhaar must sync with voter IDs to empower citizens | The Indian Express

Written by Naman Pugalia |Updated: July 27, 2019 10:06:43 am

The writer is founder, WalkIn. He previously co-founded, FourthLion Technologies, a political campaign planner.

Aadhaar must sync with voter IDs to empower citizens

Aadhaar uniquely identifies every individual in the country through all of the same details as the EPIC. Unlike EPIC, Aadhaar captures biometric data, which is generally benign information and only useful in validating uniqueness.

The ECI publicly expressed its interest in seeding their databases with Aadhaar to improve the accuracy of the voter rolls and clear doubts of malpractice and duplication error. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha)

The recently concluded national polls have brought to light, yet again, a problem that has plagued every election in India: Discrepancies in voter eligibility and rolls, and the disenfranchisement it inevitably results in. It is hard to think of a more disempowering moment in a democracy than a voter showing up at a booth, only to be told that she is ineligible to exercise her franchise.