By Kavita Mistry 
Voting is a constitutional entitlement. But SC interprets it as a right subject to ordinary law
New voter rolls are being made in a dozen other states after Election Commission’s SIR exercise in Bihar where many of the nearly 65L – about 8.5% of the electorate – whose names were excluded from the new voter rolls were never informed they no longer had a vote.
Meanwhile, Parliament’s Leader of Opposition has alleged ‘vote theft’ in state polls.
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