Public sentiment is predominantly negative and reflects deep-seated concerns about the Supreme Court's ruling that permits Aadhaar as a valid document for voter identity in Bihar. Commenters worry about the distinction between identity and citizenship, fearing misuse by illegal immigrants and non-citizens, and express distrust towards the Election Commission regarding the integrity of the electoral process. While some see potential benefits in voter participation and combating illegal voting, the overall mood is one of skepticism and a demand for greater electoral reform and accountability.

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Court have to give direction for same rather than ECI ( constitutional body). It tells very much about democratic level of independent  institutions.

Sneakysahil

&gt; (iv) In the public notice, it shall also be expressly mentioned that the aggrieved persons may submit their claims along with a copy of the Aadhaar card.

Is the SC legislating the Aadhaar Act to make it proof of citizenship? This defeats the whole purpose. Whole exercise undone due to this direction.

tryst_of_gilgamesh

Disclosing the list as well as the reasons will improve "voter confidence" in the institution, the bench observed. When Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, for the Election Commission of India, submitted that the booth-level lists of omitted voters have already been shared with the Booth Level Agents of the political parties, the bench asked why the voters should be compelled to go after political parties to know their status. "Can't you have a mechanism where they do not have to run after local political party?Why don't you do it on internet also?" Justice Kant asked. When Dwivedi said that voters can know their status by entering their EPIC number on the site, the bench suggested that the list of excluded persons itself be uploaded. "Why don't you put all deceased/migrated/duplicated elector names on website?" Justice Bagchi asked. "If you bring in public domain, the narrative (against the ECI) disappears," Justice Kant stated. "We are not being critical of your not doing something...transparency will help create voter confidence. Why don't you take an additional step of putting it up on website, clearly identifying persons who are not there, with reasons, so that they can take remedial measures?," Justice Bagchi asked. Justice Kant said a "layman-friendly" public notice in the simplest language should be published stating that the list of deleted names can be found on the website and giving the name of the website. "If Poonam Devi has been omitted, Poonam Devi must be able to know that she has been deleted and why she has been deleted," Justice Kant said.  
  
[**https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/publish-on-website-list-of-voters-omitted-in-bihar-sir-with-reasons-specify-aadhaar-card-can-be-submitted-supreme-court-directs-eci-300910**](https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/publish-on-website-list-of-voters-omitted-in-bihar-sir-with-reasons-specify-aadhaar-card-can-be-submitted-supreme-court-directs-eci-300910)

Guilty-King-9047

Thats how everything is In India. Hollow ,And just working anyhow. All these things are not even surprising for most Indians.

No_Bad6195

**Directions-**  
 After the hearing, the bench dictated the following order : On suggestion by this court, the following steps have been agreed to by ECI, as interim measures -   
(i) The list of 65 lakhs (approximate) voters whose names appeared in the voter list as on 2025 but are not included in the draft list shall be displayed on the websites of every District Electoral Officers (district-wise). The information will be booth-wise but it can be accessed by EPIC number of the voter. It shall also disclose the reason of non-inlcusion in the draft roll.  
(ii) With a view to make the public aware of the display of 65 lakh voters on the website of the District Electoral Officers, wide publicity shall be given in vernacular newspapers having wide circulation in Bihar. It shall also be broadcast and telecast on TV and radio channels. If the District Electoral Officers have any official social media site, they will display the public notice on that site as well.   
(iii) In addition, the booth-wise list of 65 lakh voters shall also be displayed on the notice board by each Booth Level Officer in their respective offices of the Block Development/Panchayat to enable the public to have manual access to the list along with the reasons for non-inclusion.  
 (iv) In the public notice, it shall also be expressly mentioned that the aggrieved persons may submit their claims along with a copy of the Aadhaar card.   
(v) The State Election Officers will also get the soft copy of the district-wise list of persons not included in the draft and will publish on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar.  
 (vi) The website-lists will be EPIC-based searchable.   
  
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There has been 100+% aadhaar coverage in multiple locations, with fake aadahaar cards for Bangladeshi immigrants being very common it's basically saying yes lock your door but leave the key stuck to the lock in case the thief needs it

One_Butterscotch8981

Allowing Aadhar card is a farce.

Hopefully this is just for this election and next onwards will be done better

Plus there is a need to disable fake aadhars

pratyush_1991

So in one fell swoop, TMC's gifting of Adhaar and ration cards to Kanglus has been legitimized by the milords. Neither of them is proof of citizenship, so how can it be enough to let them vote? Do milords even think of the implications of their actions?

ididacannonball

Allow Aadhar? Now Bangladeshis and Nepalis who have managed to get them could vote. Masterstroke.

pro-eukaryotes

While the Court declined to stay the SIR process, it repeatedly questioned the ECI's decision to exclude Aadhaar as a valid form of identification. Although no interim order was passed to halt the revision, the Court directed the ECI to provide a justification if it decides not to include Aadhaar, ration cards, or EPIC in the list of acceptable documents.



its written on the front of the damned card that it is a proof of identity and not a proof of citizenship

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The problem which that department will face is that whatever criteria they will decide for the verification the illegal will be first to full fill it and many "human rights activists" will provide any possible resource to them. 

And many "underprivileged" actual citizens will not be able to fulfill the criteria. 

Not to mention there will be political parties which will crave for illegal's votes and give somewhat similar statements like "they have the first right on the resource of the nation". USA is also facing problems due to this particular con of democracies.

piyushpathak007

Ah yes, election integrity and national security is when you remove voting rights from big swathes of citizens 🤡🤡


Actual measures to improve national security would be to heavily clamp down on it cells like yours, but something tells me you're loathe to get rid of your source of employment.

fenrir245

Sure kicking the "undesirables" out of the country would be good. But you know in some cities you may be part of the "undesirable". Maybe some states will link it to speaking the local language, maybe some will link it to the right caste/religion. Any law which reverses the burden of proof i.e. citizen need to prove they are citizens (instead of agency proving you are an alien) will be heavily mis-used. Just look at the Assam NRC experience.

SpeakDirtyToMe

You do know that ECI does infact conduct Roll Revision periodically, right? And they have majorly completed this revision last month. This Special Revision didn't make sense cause they were asked to ignore multiple documents that Biharis had and asked for stuff like Birth certificate, previous election ECI number that no one had. 

This isn't the win that you should be celebrating. 

And explain me how is this a win for Election Integrity.

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Electrol roll verification is necessary and should also be done in a transparent manner so that political parties in power cant manipulate it in it's favour.

Mega_Bond

OP did you know this video is from 2024 and from the UP elections?

https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha/story/uttar-pradesh-man-casting-vote-for-bjp-multiple-times-congress-sp-election-commission-up-police-2541196-2024-05-19?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMBbPljbGNrAwFs82V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEev5VL3v1ab1azOXB-lB5VBwP9Eu6B0gBUAGYQyE3JFEYeAqnTVp5WDDtPiJw_aem_X1GPZ9OMdPHGsyPI1QONcQ

Also...I didnt see the EC do anything to prevent BJp followers from voting multiple times

Full-Wealth-5962

Wooooow... Now show the cases of lost votes tooo...

JithendraChunduru

Why not take the simple step of linking Aadhaar with voter ID. Sure it's not foolproof, but still better than whatever non-transparent process they follow

SShreyas17

https://preview.redd.it/2gemb6b2ljhf1.jpeg?width=1080&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=e9c3c229352bf664a8035f34f201ec8328d94b46

From the source OP shared:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM4ZS61xnxv/

Centre is ruled by NDA and Bihar is also ruled by NDA ally.How would congress be able to implement this practice? Shouldn't the question be against B J P and J D U?

And I think questions have been raised against B J P on it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=optyeorvgGE

DioTheSuperiorWaifu

Yes we need electoral roll revision whereby the draft list has 70-200 voters listed at the same address, dead people reappearing on the lists, a dozen people with just 'Muhammad' as the given name and father's name with no photo or signature, and also a Muhammad listed as female in that list.


This Bihar revision is fraud.

Professional-Tear996

In my constituency which is the Muslim majority. BJP won this time and one of my hindu worker told me that this happened because Muslim were not allowed to vote. BJP is doing the same in Bihar

Fantastic-Fox-3000

W, in bihar particularly the seemanchal region demographics has been significantly shifted

Samdish Unfiltered recently released a video on his channnel about a place which is on the verge of being drowned, how are those people supposed to manage and arrange their documents? Any sympathy for them? Aren't those your fellow civilian as well.

05ish02

Criticalthinking in this Sub is crashing like no thinking at all...  SIR procedures have been proven beyond doubt to be a scam. And also these kind of manipulation is going on since 5-6 years minimum. That is how 1 party is ruling us all...

joushvirani

That's the story everywhere I guess. Last time when I went to give in my vote, there was a poor old lady before me. She went ahead to cast the vote but the volunteer told her she has already given the vote. Lady kept telling them she didn't come before this. Somehow someone else cast a vote fraudulently on her behalf. And this happened in the capital.

Over-Government-5579

What the hell election commission was doing

Nearby_Fix8310

The ECI has some serious issues. I know so many of my friends who have incorrect spellings of their names on electoral rolls. It wouldn't be an exaggeration if I mention that not a single household will have every detail correct of every member. There will be at least 1 anomaly. So things like SIR need to be done but the ECI needs to be more efficient.

This video is old not from recent elections and not from Bihar too. Verify your claims.

Any_Union_2279

Immigrant bangladeshi jiske wajah se hamare desh ke muslim bhi phas jate hai

BoringArm4890

18 is the minimum age of a voter. Whether in 8th class or not doesn't matter. 

internetsufer535

I don't understand why their Needle is stuck at how are u in 8th standard... Shouldn't be question be like how old are u?

sunnyx12x21x

In the pleas challenging the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral rolls, political activist Yogendra Yadav produced before the Supreme Court today two persons who have allegedly been declared dead in the ECI's draft electoral rolls.  
  
[**https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/bihar-sir-is-intensive-deletion-exercise-yogendra-yadav-appears-in-supreme-court-with-two-persons-deleted-as-dead-by-eci-from-draft-300679**](https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/bihar-sir-is-intensive-deletion-exercise-yogendra-yadav-appears-in-supreme-court-with-two-persons-deleted-as-dead-by-eci-from-draft-300679)

Wow, this is blatant Islamophobia.

Why are you targeting only a particular religion?

You all are Crypto-Hindus

You all are closeted BJP sympathizers supporting their new SIR bill.

You could have blurred her face and religious identity, why are you all acting like a majoritarian male chauvinist

There are more important global issues like Hindutva terror, why are you wasting time on trivial matters like this

Parashuram-

&gt; A clean, verified electoral roll is the foundation of any fair democracy.

BLOs filing fake forms is your idea of “fair democracy”, eh IT Cell chamcha?

phoenixvc

The Supreme Court of India has ordered the Election Commission to accept the Aadhaar card as the 12th document for identity verification during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.

Supreme Court Aadhaar Ruling for Electoral Rolls in Bihar

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