Your Booth Level Officer, and How to Reach Them
For most voter problems the BLO is faster than any helpline, and almost nobody uses them. What they can do, and what they cannot.
Voter Help
How to Check Your Name in the Voter List Online
Your name can be missing from the electoral roll even if you voted last time. Here is how to check it in about two minutes, and what to do if it is not there.
First-Time Voter: What Actually Happens at the Booth
Voting takes a couple of minutes. Here is the whole sequence, from the queue to the VVPAT slip, and what to do if something goes wrong.
How Electoral Roll Revision Works
The roll is revised on a published timetable with a window to challenge it. Miss the window and nothing can be fixed at the booth.
Duplicate Voter ID Entries and How to Fix Them
Being registered twice is not a spare vote. It usually happens after a move, and the risk is that the wrong entry gets deleted.
If Someone Has Already Voted in Your Name
There is a defined procedure, the tendered ballot, and it only works if you raise it at the booth there and then.
How to Report an Electoral Offence
Cash for votes, campaigning in the silence period, banners without permission. cVIGIL takes geo-tagged evidence and answers in 100 minutes.
Voting When You Live Away From Home
Millions live in one city and are registered in another. There is no general absentee ballot, so you have three options and two need deciding early.
How To Apply For New Voter ID Card
Superseded. The 2016 process described here used a website that no longer exists; see our current Form 6 guide.