EPIC card offers several benefits which include:

• • It is a reliable form of identification
• • Through this it is acknowledges that voter is duly registered
• • It includes several identifying features, such as photograph, signature, fingerprints, etc., to provide greater assurance voter is who he/she purports to be
• • By this multiple voting is prevented
• • It can be an effective form of identification where many voters have no fixed address
• • Facilitates voting in areas where voter may not be known personally
• • An electronic card will help the Election Commission (EC) to save costs on printing and distributing a hard copy of EPIC.
• • This will do away with the necessity of first producing a voter’s slip on the day of voting.