The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka resulted in the removal of over one million voters from the draft voter list published on Monday. The state now has 4.4 crore voters, a decrease from the previous 5.5 crore.
The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka resulted in the removal of over one million voters from the draft voter list published on Monday. According to Moneycontrol, this leaves the state with 4.4 crore voters, a decrease from the previous 5.5 crore. The state election office did not specify the reasons for these removals.
The removal of voters was not uniform across Karnataka. In fact, the highest deletions were recorded in Bengaluru’s urban districts. Notices will be sent to 43 lakh persons whose enumeration forms either had anomalies or those who had not been mapped.
The categories of excluded voters include those marked as permanently shifted (65.4 lakh), deceased (12.3 lakh), absent (15.1 lakh), duplicate entries (7 lakh), and 'other' (more than 3.8 lakh). However, the meaning of the 'other' category remains unclear.
Claims and objections by voters against their removal from the draft list can be filed between August 24 and September 23. The appeals will be heard by October 22, before the final electoral roll is published on October 27.
Karnataka is among the 16 states where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR. It is important to note that more than 16% of the voters in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were removed from the draft lists published on July 31 as part of the exercise.
In May, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the revision, but said that the exercise does not mean that the Election Commission can decide on whether the person is an Indian citizen.
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