The office has stated that the number of new voters has increased as the deadline for collecting new voter lists for the elections to be held on February 21 is approaching.
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Sabina Bhandari of Rampur Municipality-10, Gezha, who came to the election office in Tansen to take a photo, pre-registered four or five times. But due to a problem with the server, she had to pre-register again and again. She said that she did the pre-registration with great difficulty.
You have to register online in the voter list and take a photo. That's why Sabina complained that it took almost an hour to pre-register.
'I managed to do the 'pre-registration' with great difficulty,' she said, 'I had to fill it many times, not even with the help of the staff.' During pre-registration, you need to keep the mobile number you have with you after going to the update, after going to the new registration. Pre-registration is done after filling in the details according to your citizenship in the OTP that comes. Then, you have to go and take a photo with the number you received.
Hirakumari Khamcha of Rainadevi Chhahara Rural Municipality-3 was unable to do it herself and took the help of the staff. Staff have been deployed to complete the pre-registration. Because the server is busy, not only Bhandari and Khamcha, but many service recipients have had to suffer.
The staff has also faced problems due to the crowding in the office. While the Gen-G generation can fill it out themselves, the older generation is forced to fill it out with the help of the staff, said Binod Ghimire, the accounting officer of the election office. According to him, if you come with pre-registration, it will be easier to take a photo. You can take a photo and return quickly. But he said that since most people come without pre-registration, it is natural to have some delays.
‘That is also why the crowding in the office has increased,’ he said, ‘On the other hand, it happens when you come here. Problems also occur when everyone does not understand everything. There is also a problem because the server is busy during the afternoon.’
The office has stated that the crowd of new voters has increased as the deadline for collecting the new voter list for the election to be held on Falgun 21 is approaching. The election office in Palpa, which was deserted in the beginning, has seen a huge increase in the number of service recipients in the past four days. Jit Bahadur Chitaure Magar of Tansen Municipality-6 says that the crowd has reduced now, but it took almost three hours. ‘It was very difficult to do the pre-registration,’ he said, ‘Maybe it was due to a problem with the server, I had to stop working in the middle.’ Those who reached the office complained that even though they were busy doing the ‘pre-registration’, one person had to fill out the form up to nine times.
In Palpa, which has 10 local levels, there is a system for taking photos only at the election office in Tansen. Service recipients complained that the crowd in the past few days has caused inconvenience. Office chief Mahesh Sharma said that the crowd has increased because more service recipients who did not register online have come. He said that most of those who come to register the new voter list are from the Gen-G age group. ‘However, most of them are Gen-G,’ he said, ‘there may have been some problems due to the server being busy.’ However, it is easy to explain and remind the Gen-G generation. Our employees have helped the older generation register.’
The Election Office has intensified the work of compiling the voter list, correcting errors in the list, and transferring names in the voter list. The office has also discussed the election with political parties and reviewed polling stations. As of Kartik 26, 1,200 new voters have registered and updated their names in the list. The Election Office has stated that there were 218,037 voters in Palpa, which has two House of Representatives constituencies, before the new voter list was added. There are 118 polling stations in Palpa.
