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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief electoral officer’s (CEO) office has directed district election officers (DEOs) across the state to immediately deactivate the ECINET portal login IDs assigned to computer assistants stationed at voter registration centres (VRCs).

The press release, circulated on Saturday (October 31), comes in the wake of alleged misuse of operator credentials in Pilibhit district, where 13,779 forms were found to have been erroneously entered on the ECINET platform between May 31 and August 29 this year. Of these, 10,470 forms had been approved, the inquiry revealed.

CEO Navdeep Rinwa’s office said the directives have been issued to prevent operators at VRCs from misusing their login IDs to conduct any illegal activities on the voter registration portal. The order extends to all operators working in the offices of electoral registration officers (EROs) across all constituencies of the state.

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