Voter ID: corrections, change of address, new card, removing a name
Get a mistake in your details on the electoral roll corrected, move your entry to a new address, get a new card for a lost or damaged one, ask for a dead person's name to be removed, or give your Aadhaar number.
About this guidePending verification
Published on 12-11-2026. Not every fact has been checked against its official source yet: confirm at the office.
For whom: People already on the electoral roll in Andhra Pradesh. To object to someone else's name you must be a voter in the same constituency. If you have come here from another state, see the "Enrolling as a voter and getting a voter ID card" guide.
Answer the questions below first. Then the documents and steps open.
1Your situation
We show only what your answers need.
- Which of these are you?
- What do you need?
- What happened to your card?
- Why should the name be removed?
- How will you apply?
Your answers stay on this phone.
Each step below says who it is for. Confirm yours at the office, then change your answer here.
Another route for you
The rules differ for Indian citizens living abroad. If you are registered as an overseas elector (Form 6A), Form 8 (corrections and shifting) and Form 7 (objections and deletions) apply to you too (Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, rule 8B(2)). But overseas electors get no voter ID card (EPIC): you vote in person with your original passport. So the steps here about a new card and the e-EPIC do not apply to you. Tell the ERO when your address abroad changes. When you come back to live in India, tell the ERO so that your overseas entry is deleted, and register with Form 6 where you live.
→ Not registered yet? The voter registration guide explains Form 6A for Indian citizens living abroad. If you are still on the roll as an ordinary voter at your home address, ask the ERO what applies to you: by ECI's manual, an overseas elector gives back the old voter ID card when applying with Form 6A.
→ Enrolling as a voter and getting a voter ID card
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This route does not apply to your situation
Only Indian citizens can be registered as voters: a person who is not a citizen of India cannot be enrolled (Representation of the People Act, 1950, section 16). An OCI cardholder is a foreign national, not a citizen of India (Ministry of Home Affairs notification S.O. 1050(E), 4 March 2021), and is not entitled to vote (Citizenship Act, 1955, section 7B(2)). So updating an entry on the roll or getting a new voter ID card does not apply to you.
→ If your name is still on an electoral roll in India from before, you can ask for your own name to be deleted with Form 7; "not an Indian citizen" is one of the reasons on it. Give the form to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) of that constituency, or file it online on the Voters' Service Portal.
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This route does not apply to your situation
Only Indian citizens can be registered as voters: a person who is not a citizen of India cannot be enrolled (Representation of the People Act, 1950, section 16). People who stopped being Indian citizens when they took another country's citizenship cannot be enrolled either (ECI's Manual on Electoral Rolls). So updating an entry on the roll or getting a new voter ID card does not apply to you.
→ If your name is still on an electoral roll in India from before, you can ask for your own name to be deleted with Form 7; "not an Indian citizen" is one of the reasons on it. Give the form to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) of that constituency, or file it online on the Voters' Service Portal.
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2Documents you need
Tick the ones you have. They are kept in this browser.
Details
Any one of: water, electricity or gas connection bill for that address, at least a year old; Aadhaar card; current passbook of a nationalised or scheduled bank or the post office; Indian passport; Revenue Department land-owning records; a registered rent deed if you rent; a registered sale deed if you own the house. If you have none of these, give another document and write its name on the form.
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Details
Any document that supports the correction you ask for; write its name in the space on the form.
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Details
What the photo must look like- Size: 35 × 45 mm (width × height)
- Background: White
- In colour
- A recent photo of good quality.
- Do not sign the photo.
- Paste it in the box for the photo on Form 8.
Not confirmed: The file size and type for an online photo are not in the documents we read; follow what the portal or your BLO says.
Recent, good quality, unsigned, with a white background; 4.5 cm x 3.5 cm.
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Details
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Details
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Details
A death certificate from the competent authority.
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Details
It is for the person who applies to prove the reason.
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Details
If you have no Aadhaar, any one of: MGNREGA job card; bank or post office passbook with photo; health insurance smart card under the Ministry of Labour's scheme; driving licence; PAN card; smart card issued by the Registrar General of India (RGI) under the NPR; Indian passport; pension document with photo; service identity card with photo issued to employees by the Central or State Government, PSUs or public limited companies; official identity card of an MP, MLA or MLC; UDID card from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
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Nothing to get ready before these steps.
3Your steps
· Do them in order. Tick each one when it is done.
- Do this nowIf: Indian citizen living in India
First find your entry (or the entry of the person to be removed) on the roll and note the EPIC number and details.
If you know the EPIC number, you can also send "ECI <space> EPIC number" by SMS to 1950.
Open the official pageNot confirmed
The search page runs only with JavaScript, and we could not see its screens. ECI's manual says you can search by name or by EPIC number.
Sources: 4, 15, 7, 8, 10
- Do this nowIf: I moved house within Andhra Pradesh: change to my new address
In Form 8, tick "shifting of residence".
Give your name, EPIC number, mobile number and the new address where you now live. Tick the box of the proof of address you are giving and attach a copy. The same form is used whether you moved within your constituency or out of it; it goes to the ERO of the constituency of your new address.
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- Do this nowIf: Correct a mistake in my details (name, age, photo and so on)
In Form 8, tick "correction of entries" and tick the box of the detail to be corrected.
Write the correct detail, attach a supporting document and write its name. To change your photo, paste a new one.
Not confirmed
The manual says small slips such as spelling or transliteration errors may be put right without Form 8 when the card is made; ask your BLO whether yours is one.
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- Do this nowIf: My card is lost or damaged: I need a new one
In Form 8, tick "replacement EPIC without correction".
Give your name, EPIC number and mobile number.
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- Do this nowIf: Lost or stolen
Attach to Form 8 a copy of the police report or FIR about the lost card.
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- Do this nowIf: Lost in a flood, fire or other disaster
In Form 8, section 3, tick "Destroyed due to reason beyond control like floods, fire, other natural disaster etc.".
No police report is needed and there is no charge.
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- Do this nowIf: Torn or damaged (I still have it)
Return the damaged old card to the ERO with Form 8.
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- Do this nowIf: Mark me as a voter with a disability
In Form 8, tick "Request for marking as Person with Disability".
In section 4 tick the category (locomotive, visual, deaf and dumb, or any other: describe it), write the percentage of disability, and tick whether a certificate is attached (Yes or No).
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- Do this nowIf: Remove a name (someone who died, moved away, or is listed twice), or object to a name
Fill in Form 7: your name, EPIC number and mobile number; whether it is an objection or a deletion; one reason (death, under age, absent or permanently shifted, already enrolled, not an Indian citizen); and the person's name, surname, EPIC number and address.
To object to someone else's name you must be a voter in the same constituency.
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- Do this nowIf: The person has died
If you have the death certificate, attach a copy and tick "Yes" against "Death Certificate attached".
If you do not have it, tick "No" and still give Form 7: the BLO checks and reports to the ERO.
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- Do this nowIf: Another reason: moved away for good, listed twice, under age, not an Indian citizen, or it is my own name
Attach proof of the reason you give; it is up to you to prove it.
A false statement on the form is an offence: up to a year in prison, a fine, or both.
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- Do this nowIf: Give my Aadhaar number (Form 6B)
Fill in Form 6B: your name, constituency, EPIC number and Aadhaar number.
If you have no Aadhaar, tick that box and give a copy of one document from the list. Giving Aadhaar is your choice; your name is not removed from the roll because you could not give it.
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- Do this nowIf: Give my Aadhaar number (Form 6B)If: Online: the Voters' Service Portal or the ECINET app
Online, you can verify it yourself with an OTP sent to the mobile number registered with your Aadhaar.
If you prefer not to, or it fails, you can submit the form with the documents without it.
Open the official pageNot confirmed
The portal and the ECINET app run only with JavaScript, and we could not see their screens. ECI's manual says online forms take scanned documents and a photo. If it does not work online, hand a paper form to your BLO.
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- Do this nowIf: Online: the Voters' Service Portal or the ECINET app
Open the form on the Voters' Service Portal or in the ECINET app, fill in the details, upload the documents and submit.
Keep the reference number you get.
Open the official pageNot confirmed
The portal and the ECINET app run only with JavaScript, and we could not see their screens. ECI's manual says online forms take scanned documents and a photo. If it does not work online, hand a paper form to your BLO.
Sources: 4, 12, 13, 14, 7
- Do this nowIf: On a paper form: to the BLO or at the ERO or AERO office
Fill in the paper form (two copies for Forms 7 and 8) and attach copies of the documents signed by you.
Give it to your BLO or at the ERO or AERO office of your constituency; if you moved, to the ERO of the constituency of your new address.
Sources: 4, 2, 5, 10
- Do this nowIf: I moved house within Andhra Pradesh: change to my new address / Correct a mistake in my details (name, age, photo and so on) / Remove a name (someone who died, moved away, or is listed twice), or object to a name
The ERO puts the application on the office notice board and waits 7 days for objections, may send the BLO to check, and then decides.
If in doubt, the ERO sends a notice of hearing; for Form 7, to both the objector and the person named.
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- Do this nowIf: I moved house within Andhra Pradesh: change to my new address / Correct a mistake in my details (name, age, photo and so on) / Remove a name (someone who died, moved away, or is listed twice), or object to a name
You can see the lists of applications and objections received, constituency by constituency, on the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh's "Claims & Objections" page.
Open the official pageNot confirmed
We saw the page only as far as choosing a constituency; we did not see how the lists appear.
Sources: 9, 4
- Do this nowIf: Indian citizen living in India
If you applied online, follow its status on the portal or in the ECINET app with the reference number.
For any application you can also call 1950 and ask.
Open the official pageNot confirmed
The portal and the ECINET app run only with JavaScript, and we could not see their screens. If it does not work there, call 1950.
Sources: 4, 13, 14, 7
- Do this nowIf: I moved house within Andhra Pradesh: change to my new address / Correct a mistake in my details (name, age, photo and so on)
Once the ERO approves, a new card with the same EPIC number comes free by speed post.
It is not marked "Duplicate".
Sources: 2, 4, 18
- Do this nowIf: My card is lost or damaged: I need a new one
Once the ERO approves, a new card with the same EPIC number comes free by speed post.
It is not marked "Duplicate".
Not confirmed
ECI's June 2025 procedure gives 15 days after a roll update (a new enrolment or changed details); it does not say whether that also covers replacing a lost card with no change in the roll. Ask at 1950.
Sources: 2, 4, 18
- Do this nowIf: I moved house within Andhra Pradesh: change to my new address / Correct a mistake in my details (name, age, photo and so on) / My card is lost or damaged: I need a new one
As soon as the new card arrives, return the old card to the ERO if you have it.
If a lost card turns up later, return that too.
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- Do this nowIf: I moved house within Andhra Pradesh: change to my new address / Correct a mistake in my details (name, age, photo and so on) / My card is lost or damaged: I need a new one
If you like, download the electronic copy of the card (e-EPIC) from the portal or the ECINET app with your EPIC number.
Open the official pageNot confirmed
The portal and the ECINET app run only with JavaScript, and we could not see their screens. If it does not work there, call 1950.
Sources: 4, 13, 14, 7
If something goes wrong
If it is rejectedIf you disagree with the ERO's order, you can appeal to your District Collector (the Appellate Officer named by ECI) within 15 days of the order.
If you disagree with the ERO's order, you can appeal to your District Collector (the Appellate Officer named by ECI) within 15 days of the order. Write a memo, sign it, attach a copy of the ERO's order, and hand it in, or send it by registered post so that it arrives in time. Against the appeal decision you can appeal again to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Andhra Pradesh, within 30 days. ECINET also lets you file an appeal online. Or fix the problem and apply afresh.
Your District Collector (Appellate Officer); then the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh (A.P. Secretariat, Velagapudi) · Open the official page
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If it is lateIf the decision is late or the new card does not arrive, call 1950.
If the decision is late or the new card does not arrive, call 1950. Or lodge a complaint on the Voters' Service Portal or in the ECINET app; you can follow it with its complaint number.
1950 (voter helpline, free call)
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AlsoIf your name was removed wrongly, you can appeal to the District Collector in time, or apply again at any time with Form 6.
If your name was removed wrongly, you can appeal to the District Collector in time, or apply again at any time with Form 6. Lists of those left out of the SIR 2026 draft roll (absent, shifted, dead, duplicate: ASDD), with the reasons, are on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh; if your name is on one, apply with Form 6. ECI's SIR order asks for the Declaration Form along with Form 6 "henceforth" and gives no end date; ask your BLO or 1950 whether it is still asked for (the "Enrolling as a voter and getting a voter ID card" guide explains the form).
1950 (voter helpline, free call) · Open the official page
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If you are asked for more moneyThe forms and the new card are both free.
The forms and the new card are both free. Do not pay anyone who asks for money to get it done; call 1950 and report it.
1950 (voter helpline, free call)
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Official websites for this work
- Voters' services (Election Commission) Register as a voter, change details, voter card
- Search the voter list Check whether your name is on the voter list
Related guides
The 18 official pages and papers this guide is written from
- Guidelines for filling up the application Form-7Election Commission of India (Voters' Service Portal), Items 1 to 5 (items 1(a), 1(b) and 3: deletion of the applicant's own name; reasons include "not an Indian citizen") · read on 30-10-2026
- Guidelines for filling up the application Form-8Election Commission of India (Voters' Service Portal), Items 1 to 7 · read on 30-10-2026
- Form-6B: Letter of Information of Aadhaar number for the purpose of electoral roll authentication (Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, rule 26A)Ministry of Law and Justice, Gazette of India (Extraordinary), on ECI's Voters' Service Portal, Gazette page 37 (the whole form: option (i) Aadhaar number, option (ii) one of eleven other documents) · read on 30-10-2026
- Manual on Electoral Rolls, March 2023 (Document 10, Edition 2; Document No. 324.6.ERD:MB:10:2023)Election Commission of India (copy on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana), Printed pages 7 (the 1950 call centres), 42 (para 8.2, proof of ordinary residence), 72-73 (deleting the names of dead electors; Form 7 on the notice board for 7 days, hearing), 99 and 101 (chapter 12: duplicate forms, 7-day notice; para 12.4, appeals), 126-128 (para 14.7.2 small spelling and transliteration slips; paras 14.8 to 14.10: replacement EPIC with the same number, no "Duplicate", free, police report or none after a disaster, 32-37 days, Form 8, speed post, undelivered cards), 148-150 (chapter 18: online forms, search, tracking, e-EPIC, complaints), 383-385 (FAQs: Form 8 for corrections and shifting, lost EPIC, Form 7 for objections and deletions, appeals); for who may apply: 35-36 (para 6.2: a voter must be a citizen of India; section 16 of the 1950 Act), 142-144 (chapter 16: overseas electors, section 20A, rule 8B, Form 6A, no EPIC, voting with the original passport), 381-382 and 384-385 (FAQs: non-citizens and former citizens cannot be enrolled; NRIs and Form 6A); printed page 107 (para 13.6.2.3: a dead elector's name is deleted on a death certificate, or Form 7 from relatives, neighbours or friends, or the Booth Level Officer's report); printed pages 253-257 (Annexures 8.1, 9 and 10; PDF pages 270-274): Forms 6B, 7 and 8 as printed in the Manual, read from the page images · read on 30-10-2026
- Press release: amendments to the R.P. Act 1950 and the Registration of Electors Rules in force from 1 August 2022 (new forms, four qualifying dates, voluntary Aadhaar)Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi (explaining the Election Commission of India's national rules), Pages 1 to 4 · read on 30-10-2026
- Letter No. 23/2025-ERS (Vol.II) dated 14 May 2026: SIR of Electoral Roll, with annexures (order of 24 June 2025, Aadhaar letter of 9 September 2025, Enumeration Form, Declaration Form, last intensive revision dates, schedule)Election Commission of India (letter to the Chief Electoral Officers, Andhra Pradesh and others; copy on the website of the Andhra Pradesh Non-Resident Telugu Society, Government of Andhra Pradesh), Letter paras 2(a) (booth-wise lists of electors left out of the draft roll, with probable reasons, on the CEO's website) and 2(c); annexure order of 24 June 2025, para 15 (henceforth a Declaration Form with Form 6 and Form 8), and its guidelines 4(c) (Form 6 with the Declaration Form for those left out), 5(d) (every claim as a new elector is in Form 6 with the Declaration Form) and 5(e) (Form 8 uses) (14-05-2026) · read on 30-10-2026
- Home page of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra PradeshChief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh, Links to the SIR 2026 draft roll and the ASDD (absent, shifted, dead, duplicate) lists, 'Check your name in Electoral Roll', 'Submit Application Online', 'Track your Application Online', 'Download E-epic', 'National Grievance Redressal System', 'Toll Free 1950'; the office address (A.P. Secretariat, Velagapudi) · read on 30-10-2026
- Voter Services through SMSChief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh, The ECI <EPIC number> format sent to 1950 · read on 30-10-2026
- Claims and Objections PortalChief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh, Choice of Assembly constituency (the lists themselves need the page to run) · read on 30-10-2026
- Voter Guide for General Public (English), "Be a Smart Voter"Election Commission of India (on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh), Page 1: Process of registration (online, offline), Form 8, Form 7, four qualifying dates, search by SMS to 1950 · read on 30-10-2026
- Notifications No. 508/AP/SOU-3/2023(2) and 508/AP/SOU-3/2023(AO)(1) of 5 June 2026: District Election Officers and Appellate Officers in Andhra Pradesh (Gazette Nos. 6 and 7, 11 June 2026)Election Commission of India, published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette Extraordinary, Part V (on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh), Gazette No. 7: District Collectors designated as Appellate Officers for appeals against the decisions of the Electoral Registration Officers (11-06-2026) · read on 30-10-2026
- Press note: ECI to launch a single-point app, ECINET, subsuming over 40 existing appsElection Commission of India (press note on the Government of Sikkim website), Apps to be subsumed, including the Voter Helpline App (04-05-2025) · read on 30-10-2026
- ADC Longleng informs on ECINETDepartment of Information and Public Relations, Government of Nagaland (relaying the Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland), Services on the ECINET web portal and app: forms, tracking, e-EPIC, "Book a call with BLO", online appeals, complaints (10-07-2026) · read on 30-10-2026
- Voters' Service Portal, home pageElection Commission of India, Home page (it needs JavaScript; only its title could be read) · read on 30-10-2026
- Electoral search (Voters' Services Portal)Election Commission of India, Home page (it needs JavaScript; only its title could be read) · read on 30-10-2026
- Notification S.O. 1050(E) dated 4 March 2021: rights of Overseas Citizen of India cardholders (Citizenship Act, 1955, section 7B(1))Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3(ii), No. 962), Rights (1) to (5); Explanation (1): an OCI cardholder is a foreign national holding a foreign passport and is not a citizen of India (04-03-2021) · read on 30-10-2026
- Benefits to which OCI Cardholder is not entitled toConsulate General of India, Birmingham (Ministry of External Affairs), The whole page: no right to vote, as specified in section 7B(2) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 · read on 30-10-2026
- ECI to fast-track EPIC delivery, electors to get EPICs within 15 days of updation in the electoral rollsDepartment of Information and Public Relations, Government of Nagaland (relaying the Election Commission of India), Whole notice: ECI's new standard operating procedure delivers the EPIC within 15 days of an update in the electoral roll (a new enrolment or a change in an elector's particulars); each stage tracked from EPIC generation by the ERO to delivery by the Department of Posts; SMS to the elector at each stage; an IT module on ECINet (19-06-2025) · read on 01-11-2026