The work of collecting entire information about the government staff to be deployed in poll duty during the coming Lok Sabha elections is going to be begin. The Election Commission has made it clear that that the officials to be deployed in poll-related duties must be voters themselves. Therefore, if an official's name is not included in the voter's list then it must be added in the updated list. The commission has accelerated the momentum of preparations for Lok Sabha elections.

The commission has entrusted the Chief Electoral Officer the task of reviewing the database structure of the government employees who are to be deployed in elections. Their number will have to be checked as voters Vidhan Sabha constituency-wise. The database of an employee must contain his full address, telephone number, mobile number and e-mail address. The commission wants to ensure that these employees' names are included in voters' lists. The commission will not tolerate any mistake or lacuna which might hamper free and fair elections.

The commission has also made it clear that with a view to pre-empting any haste, tension and dereliction it is imperative that all the information about the polling staff is collected at the earliest. It has also instructed to prepare a separate database of Central government employees since they will be deployed as micro observers. It has been made explicit that no Central government employee will be deployed on election duty during the coming Lok Sabha elections.

The Chief Electoral Officer has been told to set the norms of randomization of the software being developed for the information database about the government employees and approve the same at the earliest. Similarly, the National Informatics Centre (N.I.C.) has been told to leave alone the randomization software being used by other states and concentrate on developing the software which is to be sent to the top Election Commission officers.