You must have a little patience in getting a new card.  Present yourself at the designated ward office, meet the election officials, obtain necessary forms, fill them up with necessary enclosures like address proof in Bengaluru and hand it over to them for scrutiny and further direction - do not forget to obtain acknowledgement for whichever form you submit and also for surrendering your Bihar ID.

For further detailed information log on to

http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/indexw.asp 

where you will find FAQs.

If we want our democracy to survive, we must vote, for voting, we must have EPIC. Your interest is appreciated.

-Vasanthkumar Mysoremath

If your passport or PAN card has Bangalore address, thats the best. Next, try taking a phone bill, or your lease agreement (since you are most likely renting your place), or your sale deed copy (if you have a house).

Go to JaagoRe.com to find your ward office details.

I am not sure if it still works, but you can try this Bangalore Voter ID helpline as well

Do post your experience getting the EPIC. Many people think its too hard to get in cases like yours. Let us know if that is the case.

And once you get your EPIC, remember to vote for ......, sorry, you won't get that advice here :)

This is what Jaago Re told us when they came to our apartment for a campaign.

You can use any of the standard photo IDs to vote - Passport, DL, PAN Card, Ration Card or EPIC.  Should not matter what address is there on it. 

Getting your name included in the correct list is more critical to vote.  Voter ID/EPIC is a different matter.  Don't confuse the two.

Srivathsa

Dear All,

Please have a look at my posting in this link:

http://www.mysorenext.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=1050&SECTION=7

After this was posted on this website and a number of media reports started flying from all corners, DEO and other officers of Mysore have been making all out sincere efforts to make arrangements through VFCs, Mobile Photo capturing units, hiring more digital equipments, deploying majority of the revenue officials on the job and to help citizens get their EPICs without much hassle.  I was given to understand that after these maladies were brought to the notice of authorities, after observation, two persons who were acting as middlemen (?) have been arrested by the Police at one of the VFCs.

Still huge crowds were seen in long queues today (8-4-09) in Bannimantap VFC in Mysore with disgust writ large on their faces for having to spend precious long 'earning hours' for these EPICs.  At this rate it would be doubtful if the entire eligible voters can be listed in the electoral list.  Even the names of applicants given ten days back are yet to be enlisted, leave alone taking photo and issue of EPIC.  Even the task of finding out whether their name is there or not, it is pain standing in long long Ques, after reaching the counter, if name is not there on the computer system, one can imagine the ........ of these gullible people.   

There appears to be an increased awareness during this Election to exercise the franchise and if the voters are turned back due to non-production of EPIC, then the accusing finger will point to the EC for any poll debacle in the system and its effect on participatory democracy with unimaginable poll results.

EC may please start looking into alternative identification methodologies to enable those with old EPICs with photo or without photo to exercise their franchise; on production of DL, Telephone bills, Property tax documents, tenancy / mortgage documents etc.  All these will be useful ONLY if our names exist on the electoral list.

God bless the greatest living democracy in the world.

-Vasanthkumar Mysoremath

 I have an EPIC Card. By using the the name as in my EPIC card I got my polling booth details, for both assembly and parliament elections. Thanks.

PSA