NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday expressed full satisfaction with the work being finished by Election Commission in making ready the ultimate voter listing for the approaching normal elections and stated there was no room to accuse the ballot supervisory physique of not taking sufficient steps to weed out duplicate and ghost voters.

Appearing for EC, advocate Amit Sharma informed a bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra that typically individuals, particularly the primary time voters, are smitten by registering their names within the voters listing, however there’s a discernible lack of effort on the a part of citizens to assist Election Commission in deleting duplicate entries and the names of the lifeless from voters listing.

For this cause, Election Commission and a big contingent of sales space degree officers conduct home to accommodate verification, he stated.

“An IT-enabled system generates lists of probable Demographic Similar Entries (DSEs) & Photo Similar Entries (PSEs). House-to-House verification acts as an assistive tool for Electoral Registration officers (EROs)/AEROs, who must complete the process as defined in concerned Act & Rules,” he added.

As per the lastly revealed electoral roll, a complete of over 96.9 crore voters are registered throughout the nation, EC stated. More than two crore younger electors, spanning the 18-19 and 20-29 age teams, have been added to the electoral roll.

After listening to Sharma, the bench disposed of a PIL, which had alleged that large-scale duplicate entries and ghost voters live on on the voters listing and had sought a route to EC to eradicate them previous to the final elections.