Mangaluru district administration takes steps to include missing voter’s name in the final electoral roll

Admitting of error in marking 63-year-old Mangaluru city resident as dead and removing him from the draft electoral roll, the Dakshina Kannada district administration stated that steps have been taken to include his name in the final electoral roll.

In a statement on September 1, Tuesday, Additional District Electoral Registration Officer and Additional Deputy Commissioner K. Raju, said, on August 29 the Booth Level Officer noticed that 63-year-old Donald Joseph Rego, a resident of Bejai New Road in Mangaluru city, has been erroneously included in the list of dead and his name has got deleted from the draft roll. The same day, the BLO and the jurisdictional Electoral Registration Officer personally contacted Mr. Rego and Form 6 was submitted, along with necessary documents, through the BLO App. “Steps have been to include the name of Mr. Rego in the final SIR electoral roll,” Mr. Raju stated.