The Election Commission has rolled out an e-verification procedure to ensure that the provision to seek deletion of names from the voters’ list is not misused.

Those seeking the removal of names or claiming objection to the inclusion of names in the electoral roll will get a one-time password on their registered mobile phones.

There could be cases where a person seeking removal of a name gives someone else’s name or phone number while filing an objection online. This added feature will present such a misuse, an official explained.

The feature was rolled out a week ago, with poll authority officials insisting that it is not a reaction to wrongful attempts to delete names in the Aland Assembly constituency in Karnataka.

The EC said that although the elector of the constituency can fill F

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