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Voting Identity

By LIFS December 9, 2009 at 11:32 PM
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Indian transsexuals can register with an independent identity in the country's voter lists.

 
Eunuchs, who were classified under male or female earlier, will have the option to tick "O" - for other - when indicating their gender in voter forms.

The Indian election commission said in a statement, "Enumerators and booth-level officers (BLOs) shall be instructed to indicate the sex of eunuchs/transsexuals etc as 'O' if they so desire, while undertaking any house-to-house enumeration/verification of any application."
India has 714 million registered voters.

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