New Delhi: A bill to link electoral rolls with the Aadhaar ecosystem to weed out duplication was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Introducing The Election Laws.
Aadhaar-linked voter IDs gets nod as Cabinet clears Electoral Reforms Bill, read details - One of the provisions of the bill allows those exercising their franchise for the first time to get as many as four turns to register in a year.
Activists have warned about the dangers of using Aadhaar as a way of weeding out names from voter lists considering the huge mismatch in the two databases.
ortez. i think the future of our party and our success is in these candidates in districts who are running for office. i think she s doing the exact right thing which is to get behind these people and help them win. i think we create these false battles, so to speak, in washington, d.c. about, is the party about this person or that person. the party right now is about winning these individual house districts and the candidates in these house districts are very different because our party is very different regionally. at the point that we are in a presidential primary, yeah, we have to pick somebody to lead our party and we can have that. i think she is doing the exact right thing, get in there and help these people win in these individual races. that s an interesting point. we ve got to get it more defined as we head in to 2020. i want you both to listen to what the president said last night. he was talking about voter i.d.s. then it went a bit odd.
shannon: redistricting is not the only issue in pennsylvania. the commonwealth now at the center of an exposing lawsuit with some stunning allegations. jay christian adam says he has hundreds of pages of evidence to support his claim that noncitizens were allowed to register to vote in pennsylvania. for example, in a letter from the allocating elections division, a noncitizen was told that as a voter registration had been canceled because he is not a u.s. citizen. another from the county allegedly voted twice in 2008 and once in 2012. the registration was canceled in 2014, but possibly reregistered in 2015. and to this noncitizen allegedly has an extensive voting history dating back to 2008. supporting three different voter ids and is still actively registered to vote. shannon: joining me now in washington is former attorney for the department of justice