While we, as citizens, can link bank accounts, ration cards, and even vaccination certificates to Aadhaar, the system cannot guarantee that a voter ID is correctly mapped to the citizen who owns it

xI am a law-abiding citizen of India, with all the paperwork to prove it. Yet today, I do not exist in the eyes of our democracy. My voter ID number now belongs to a 70-year-old stranger named Chitra Bose. Her husband’s name, by coincidence or manipulation, matches my husband’s. She has been “moved” from West Bengal to Haryana. I, meanwhile, have been erased.

I discovered this while trying to transfer my voter ID from Kolkata to Gurgaon. What began as a simple update spiralled into an identity theft nightmare. Online forms refused to recognise me. When I tried again later, I found my name had

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