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Is a Right Stronger Than the Process That Delivers It? The Case of the Indian Vote

The Indian Express investigation into internal dissent at the Election Commission and its finding that 97 eligible Goa voters were kept off the roll by ECINet's lack of a rollback facility, has revived the debate over the legal status of the right to vote. Several state schemes, including the Goa Mediclaim Scheme, reportedly use the electoral roll to decide eligibility, so deletion now affects welfare access as well as the…