🇮🇳 India
India EPIC (Voter's Registration) (ECI)
Verifies input data against the Election Commission of India database. Authoritative real-time identity lookup for India. Real-time lookup, pay-per-call.
POST
Verifies input data against the Election Commission of India database. Didit exposes this service through
POST /v3/database-validation/ so you can verify the submitted data against the authoritative source and receive normalized match results.
Coverage
- Coverage: > 75%
- Country: India
- Service ID:
ind_epic_voter_s_registration - Data domain: Government
- Category: ElectoralRoll
Inputs
- Required inputs:
full_name,date_of_birth,epic_card - Optional inputs:
vendor_data - Consent: Required
- Workflow availability: Standalone API only
- Coverage: > 75%
- Price: $0.15 per successful query
Body parameters
string
default:"IND"
required
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for this database service.Example:
INDstring
default:"ind_epic_voter_s_registration"
required
Array containing this service ID. Pinning the service keeps the request scoped to this exact database.Example:
ind_epic_voter_s_registrationboolean
default:"true"
required
Explicit end-user consent for this service.Example:
truestring
default:"John Doe"
required
Full legal name to validate.Example:
John Doestring
default:"1990-01-01"
required
Date of birth in
YYYY-MM-DD format.Example: 1990-01-01string
default:"ABC1234567"
required
EPIC voter card number.Example:
ABC1234567string
default:"user-1234"
Your stable user reference for this person, such as your internal user ID. Didit uses it to link standalone checks to the same end user and reduce duplicate-detection noise.Example:
user-1234Input rules & validation notes
epic_cardmust match[A-Za-z]{3}\d{7,14}.
How to call it
Returned data
The exact fields surfaced insource_data depend on what the registry returns. The generated example for ind_epic_voter_s_registration currently documents this normalized shape:
date_of_birthfull_nameidentification_number
Pricing & SLAs
India EPIC (Voter’s Registration) (ECI) queries are billed only when Didit receives a conclusive result from the validation source.- Per-call price: $0.15 USD.
- Billing: per successful query. You are not charged when the registry is unreachable, when required fields are missing, or when the request is rejected before reaching the source.
- Latency: typical p95 < 2 s.
- Availability: 99.9% per quarter on Didit’s side; downstream source availability varies by country and dataset.