Delhi SIR: 94% of 33 lakh voters issued notices for discrepancies cleared for final electoral roll

The Delhi Election Commission on Tuesday said that 31.2 lakh, or more than 94%, of the 33.1 lakh voters who received notices during the special intensive revision had been cleared for inclusion in the final electoral roll, The Hindu reported.

The 33.1 lakh voters who received notices account for about one-third of the 97.5 lakh voters included in the draft electoral roll. Of those issued notices, 13.7 lakh could not be linked to the electoral roll from the last special intensive revision, while 19.3 lakh were flagged for “logical discrepancies” in their enumeration forms.

Even prominent persons, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, received notices during the revision.

The deadline for disposing of notices is November 30, while the final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on December 4.

Booth-level officers have been visiting homes across constituencies to collect documents from the 33 lakh people who received notices, the Delhi chief electoral officer had said earlier this month.

On September 22, the Supreme Court had taken note of concerns that notices issued to voters on the “doubtful” list did not provide sufficient reasons or details. It said voters needed clarity when they were served notices for “logical discrepancies” and observed that the notices appeared to have been issued...

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