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COVER STORY

National Voters’ Day Special

n Voter Services Portal: Through (https://
voters.eci.gov.in/), citizens can view the electoral
roll, apply for a voter ID card, apply online for
corrections in the voter ID card, and find the
contact number of the Block Level Officer and
Electoral Registration Officer. Some similar
tasks can be done on the phone using the Voter
Helpline mobile app.

n Persons with Disabilities
(Saksham) Application
App: The Saksham app is for
persons with disabilities. n The Voter Turnout app is used by
certified turnout officers to record voter
n National Grievance Service Portal (NGSP): turnout for Lok Sabha and Assembly
This is a national grievance service portal. elections.
Citizens can avail of the service using the link n The counting data entered by Returning
https://voters.eci.gov.in. Officers related to the results website
and result trends is available on the
'Commission Results Website'.

Election
Anecdotes

n Integrated Election Polling Station for Five
Expenditure Monitoring Voters on the Siachen
System (IEMS): This
is a user-friendly, secure Glacier Peak
online platform that In the remote region of Ladakh, a polling
enables political parties to station was set up in Warshi, just 17
submit documents such kilometers from the Siachen Base Camp,
as contribution reports, for only 5 voters from a single family.
annual audit accounts, This is the last village before the outposts
and election expenditure on the high peaks of Siachen. Since there
online. was no permanent building other than
the voters’ house, the polling station was
set up in a tent.