There's a post office ID card for various people in the same situation you are
in, that's acceptable as valid proof of address and photo id.
srs
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:58 AM
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> 2008/11/26 Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > The voters who matter are being systematically disenfranchised. How
> > many in Silk have voted ever? In the recent past?
> >
> > Registering to vote, and then exercising it is such a huge effort
> that
> > most people who are gainfully employed, educated and busy are just
> > unable to get their vote.
>
> I tried, recently. Turns out that to register in Gurgaon, where I
> live, I need to produce _two_ proofs of address. The only thing I can
> produce is a telephone bill. My (court registered) house lease is not
> acceptable, deems the bureaucrat in charge. My passport has the
> address of a house I rented in Bangalore between 1999 and 2001, after
> which I have changed residence within India three times and once
> outside. I simply have no way of proving, to the bureaucrat's
> satisfaction, that I actually live in Gurgaon.
>
> And so I can't vote.
>
> Exactly the same situation as you.
>
> Ram
