As a nation, we have learned to live with clerical error, even treating mistaken identity as a routine matter. In the election ahead, lakhs of people will be unable to vote because they have been turned into other people by the faceless clerks who made out their identity cards. These errors are addressed after every poll but it’s a Canute-like exercise, because in the meantime other clerks are inserting fresh errors in other identity papers.
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