On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Ashwin Nanjappa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 18:55, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Heh, this sounds so simple. It took me 12 years to get my voter ID > > card. Finally arrived this year with a photo from the early 90s. > > I got my Voter ID card around 2004 when they were issuing it areawise > in Bengaluru. I was given a date and location (a government school) to > get the card. They took a grainy mugshot using a webcam/low-res > digicam (don't remember which), filled out the details, asked me if > it's correct, printed out the card, laminated it and gave it to me > right there. I have no idea if the card format has changed since then > though. > > ~ash > Ah. I got this kind of card in 1992. NOW...that card no. is not listed anywhere, so I could not get it deleted; and I was told that unless I had that deleted, I could not register in my new constituency. After several futile attempts, I just quiety registered for a new card. The guy-at-the-door, who vetted our documents when we reached the head of the queue (after 2 hours), asked my husband and me if we had never ever voted. Who wanted to state the truth, that we have voted in Chennai, but have been abroad during the election dates for several years? "No", we said concisely. He then asked us to provide proof that we had never voted....we had to browbeat him quite a bit to get him to let us through and submit our forms. The irony...we will be abroad at voting time AGAIN, this year. Why are we then going through this? I don't know.... Cheers, Deepa.
