Last week the Election Commission put out an intriguing press release. It invited party presidents and senior leaders, as “key stakeholders”, for “interactions” on how to strengthen “electoral processes”.
This 11 March press release came after two earlier ones from the EC.
The first, hurriedly put out on a Sunday morning—2 March—rushed to clarify that duplicate EPIC (Electoral Photo Identity Card) numbers did not imply “fake voters” and were merely the result of differences in “alphanumeric series”.
