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Simultaneous poll to end multiple voting in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana

In Telangana, 2 million names were deleted from the voter list ahead of the Assembly elections in December 2018

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B Dasarath Reddy Hyderabad
The simultaneous elections in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are likely to scotch rumours and allegations that migrant Telugu people, though they enrolled themselves locally, cast their votes for their favourite parties elsewhere by having multiple voter registrations.

The practice of people having their voter registrations active in the two states assumed political dimensions in the past with parties levelling allegations against one another of using them.

In Telangana, 2 million names were deleted from the voter list ahead of the Assembly elections in December 2018, the reason cited being double entry, and a similar number of votes was removed in Andhra Pradesh,