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Delhi to hold special voter camps for homeless, trans and sex workers
Delhi election officials will hold evening camps at shelters and other locations to help homeless citizens, transgender persons and sex workers enrol during the electoral roll revision. The outreach follows a sharp drop in third-gender electors and aims to ease document and address barriers for eligible voters.
Poll officials in Delhi on Thursday said special camps will be held at night shelters and other identified locations across the city to reach homeless citizens, transgender persons and sex workers who may face difficulty in proving their identity or residence during the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
The camps will be organised on September 23 and 24 from 5 pm to 9 pm at all Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board night shelters and other such locations across the capital's 13 districts, according to a statement issued by the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer. Separate outreach for transgender persons and sex workers will be carried out in coordination with NGOs working with these communities, with booth-level officers deployed at the designated locations during the camps.