# Detect tampered and deepfake Voter ID > A voter ID is an electoral registration record rather than an identity credential, and the gap between those two things is what forgers work in. The card exists to prove entitlement to vote at a named polling station, so it is built cheaply: thin stock, a laminate, a printed serial, and a photograph. When a bank or a telecom accepts it for onboarding, a low-security document is being asked to carry a high-value decision. TamperCheck analyses it for the edits that invites. **Canonical URL:** https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/voter_id **API document class:** `voter_id` **Last updated:** 2026-10-07 --- ## What a genuine voter ID contains A voter identity card carries the elector's name, a parent or spouse name used to separate common names, an age or date of birth at registration, sex, and residential address, together with a photograph and the elector registration number. The reverse usually adds the constituency or electoral district, the part and serial number locating the entry within the roll, the date of issue, and the signature or facsimile of the electoral registration officer over a printed authority emblem. The registration number keys a roll entry, and the address is what places that entry in a particular constituency, so the two have to agree. A number issued in one district paired with an address in another is not a clerical slip but a contradiction the roll itself would reject. The part and serial number narrow it further, to a page of one polling station's list. The relationship field exists because the roll expects duplicate names and has to resolve them. ## How voter ID forgeries are made ### Registration number edits The elector number is altered so the card appears to belong to a roll entry it does not. Because the number ties to a district and a serial position, an invented value usually contradicts the constituency and address printed on the same card, and the replaced characters break the card's print rhythm. ### Address changes for residence proof The address is the field rewritten most often, because the card is submitted as proof of residence at least as frequently as proof of identity. Changing it places the holder in a constituency the registration number does not belong to, which is why the two fields are worth reading together. ### Photo replacement under lamination A new photograph is inserted before the card is relaminated, or composited into a scan afterwards. These cards use low-resolution printed photos, so a replacement taken from a phone camera arrives sharper and cleaner than the card surrounding it, with a boundary the original print process never created. ### Wholesale card fabrication The stock and layout are simple enough that entire cards are printed rather than edited. Typography is where they fall down, since the electoral authority uses specific faces, weights, and letter spacing, and a reconstructed template drifts from them in ways a comparison against a genuine specimen exposes. ### Emblem and hologram copying The issuing emblem and any hologram are the only security features present, which makes them the whole of the forger's problem. Copied from a scan, they arrive as flat ink with no angular behaviour, carrying the halftone screen of the copy rather than the structure of the original. ## What TamperCheck checks on a voter ID TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks across three layers and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 with plain-English findings tied to specific regions of the document. These three carry the most weight on this document class. ### Portrait substitution and face-swap analysis The document is isolated from whatever it was photographed on, then the portrait region is assessed against the card surface around it. A pasted or generated face rarely matches the substrate it was placed onto. ### Reference and document number checks Document, account, and reference numbers are checked for issuer format conformance and against every other place the same value appears on the page. ### Field-level forensics Every text region is analysed in its own right rather than as part of one whole-page image. This catches the smoothed and feathered edits that whole-image Error Level Analysis misses entirely. ### And many more checks The three above are the layers that carry the most weight on a voter ID. Every upload runs the full suite of 200+ checks regardless of document class, spanning file structure and metadata, pixel-level forensics, font and text rendering, optical and print characteristics, provenance signals, AI-generation signatures, and many more checks. ## Who verifies a voter ID, and why Banks and telecoms accepting voter ID for KYC onboarding. In each case the document is being used to unlock money, access, or a legal status, which is exactly what makes it worth forging. ## How to verify a voter ID in 4 steps 1. **Check the fields against each other.** Read EPIC number, holder photo, and address together rather than one at a time. Forgers typically change one value and leave the rest of the document describing the original. 2. **Inspect the file metadata.** Open the document properties and look at the producer, creation date, and modification date. A document produced by a consumer PDF editor, or created long after the date printed on its face, is worth a closer look. 3. **Ask for a second document.** Request a corroborating document from the same issuer or an adjacent period. Forgery effort concentrates on one file, so inconsistencies surface as soon as there are two to compare. 4. **Run a forensic check.** Manual review catches obvious edits but not field-level pixel manipulation or synthetic generation. TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks on a voter ID and returns a risk score from 0 to 100 within seconds, at $0.50 per document. ## Frequently asked questions ### How do banks verify a voter ID card? Banks read the card's fields, check the registration number against the constituency and address printed beside it, match the photograph to the applicant, and analyse the submitted image for editing. Where the electoral authority publishes a lookup, the entry is confirmed there. Because the card carries so few security features, the document analysis does more of the work than it would on a passport. ### Can a voter ID be forged? Yes, and it is among the easier identity documents to forge, which is the main argument against accepting it as standalone KYC evidence. It has no chip, no machine-readable zone, and usually a single hologram or emblem as its whole security layer. What remains detectable is the typography, the print process, and whether the number, district, and address agree. ### What is the EPIC number on a voter ID? It is the elector's unique registration number, printed on the card and used as the key to their entry on the electoral roll. It is what ties the card to a specific constituency and a specific position within that constituency's list, which is why an altered number usually ends up contradicting the address or district printed alongside it. ### How can you tell if a voter ID card has been edited? Compare the edited field against the rest of the card rather than against your expectation of it. Replaced text carries different stroke weight, different edge sharpness, and a different compression history from the characters around it, and a replaced photograph interrupts the laminate. TamperCheck runs 200+ forensic checks on the card image and reports a risk score from 0 to 100. ## Related document types - Passport: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/passport - ID Card: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/id_card - National ID: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/national_id - Driver's License: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/drivers_license - Social Security Card: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/social_security_card - Photograph: https://tampercheck.ai/documents-support/photograph --- Try TamperCheck now: https://tampercheck.ai/dashboard · Docs: https://tampercheck.ai/docs · Pricing: https://tampercheck.ai/pricing