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Out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, 522 constituencies and the legislative constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Orissa will go to the polls on the basis of the photo electoral rolls.
Nearly 77 per cent eligible voters would have their photographs in the rolls.
Over 90 per cent electors have been issued voters cards with photographs in fourteen states and 90 per cent electors have their photographs printed in the electoral rolls in thirteen states.
This will facilitate easy identification and prevent impersonation.
The concept of photo electoral roll was introduced in 2005 when it was tested as a pilot project during the revision of rolls in all the constituencies of Kerala and Puducherry, two constituencies of Haryana and in one constituency each in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
On the successful completion of the pilot project, the subsequent elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Kerala and Puducherry in 2006, the 2007 elections of Himachal Pradesh and the 2008 legislative elections in Meghalaya, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Delhi were also conducted using Photo Electoral Rolls.
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82% using ID cards is not correct perception of elections. Media is duty-bound to see ad watch as to how many are genuine and how many bogus. Recently Delhi CM is subject of a complaint that in the East Delhi and Outer Delhi 10 lakh bogus voters have been made during the voter ID Card exercise during March,2008. Mostly these bogus voters are either muslims or Bangladeshis because there is no check at any of the borders from illegal entrants come. This is borne out ofmthe fact that Congress/UPA govt.has opened as many as seven entry routes like (i)Train service via Munnabao(Raj.) to across Pak border, (ii) Bus service from Delhi to Lahore, (iii) AC Rath service iaugurated by PM Manmohan Singhji from Amritsar to Nanakana Sahib in Pakistan, (iv)