How To Download Voter Id Card : Complete Guide

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All the governmental and official documents are needed to be kept handy all the time and your Voter Id card is one of them. It is quite impossible and uncomfortable to keep the hard copy of the Voter Id card with you all the time. Mobile phones are quite an easy way to secure them because no one knows where your voter Id can be needed. Thus, one must download the Voter Id card in the phone itself thereby, making it easier for themselves and others too.

Now, your Voter Id card is not only used during the time of elections, but it is also your identity card issued by the government. Hence, if you are a citizen of India of above 18 years of age, then you are an eligible voter. For the ones who already have their Voter Id, let us get to the way to download Voter Id card online.

How to Download Voter Id Card Online?

Head on to the official website of the Election Commission of India.
Go to the Form and click on ‘Apply online for registration of new voter Id.’
Proceed further as ‘Apply as a new voter.’
After you proceed as a new user, you will be asked to fill in further details regarding age, name, gender, residential address and marital status.
This is followed by the entering the Voter Id details and other personal information of two persons that you know can vouch for you.
Once you are done with all this information, you will be redirected to the next step where you have to attach your verified documents of identity proof and address proof which will complete the enrollment process.
Your application number will be sent to your mobile number and the e-mail address you provided.
With the help of this application number, you can check your Voter Id on the official website.
Once the Voter Id gets uploaded on the official website, you can click on the ‘download’ button to download Voter Id online.

The electronic version of the voter Id is called e-EPIC (Electronic Electoral Photo Identity Card) programme which was launched on January 24 this year and makes your Voter Id ready to be downloaded on your mobile phones or personal computers like other official documents as Aadhar card, Driving License, PAN card, which were already available online. This is a non-editable digitalised version of your Voter Id card with which you can either save it in your phones and computers or add it to your Digilocker.

More Information You Must Know Before You Download Voter ID Card Online

Apart from the above-mentioned procedure and information, there are more that you should know about before you download Voter Id card online.

After the launch of the e-EPICprogramme, the government has set the duration of January 25-31 as the time period to download Voter-Id online, but only for those applied for Voter-Ids and registered their phone number with the Election Commission of India.
All those who already have their Voter-Ids and have registered their number with the Election Commission will be able to download Voter-Ids online from February 1.
Those who haven’t yet linked their phone numbers with the election commission have to again re-verify all the above details to make avail the download feature.

More features of digital Voter ID cards are:

The Voter-Ids cards will be downloaded in pdf format.
Those who are new voters will get their Voter-Id in hard copy format and. They will use the digital format beforehand so that they don’t miss out the chance of voting for the upcoming elections.
Digital Voter-Id cards are very useful in case you lose your hard copy.
They can be easily stored and secured in the DigiLocker app.
The digital Voter-Id cards are secured with QR code and demographics which makes it impossible to get duplicated.

How to Download Voter-Id Online For Those Who Already Are Registered Voters?

The new programme launched by the government was done to make it easy for new voters, but the programme has also extended the availability to download Voter Id card to the already existing registered voters too.

Here is how you can download Voter-Id online:

Log into either https://voterportal.eci.gov.in or https://nvsp.in/Account/Login official website.
Those who don’t have an account can log into the website through e-mail id or phone number and create their account on the website.
If you already have an account on the website, you only need to log in to it.
Click on download e-EPIC option and your Voter Id will be downloaded into your device in the pdf format.

These were the procedures to download Voter Id online from the relevant webpage. In order to secure it in your phone, you must download Digilocker on your phone to keep all your official documents in hand.