Thanks EC, I’m a First-Time Voter and My Name Is Not on the List

The excitement of being a voter for the first time and casting my first vote all came to an end today, as I could not find my name in the voters’ list for the second phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. What’s worse is that this has happened to me for the second time.

I had applied for a voter ID for the Karnataka Assembly election in May last year. I was not able to cast my vote then, because I found out that I was underage as of 1 January 2018. I couldn’t help that, but I knew that I would be eligible to vote in the Lok Sabha elections so I submitted my application online in January 2019 itself.