EC says 98.2% voters have filed documents in second phase of Bihar’s electoral rolls revision

The Election Commission on Sunday said that it has received documents from 98.2% of voters so far during the second phase of the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar.

The draft rolls published on August 1 showed that 65.6 lakh names were removed from the list. Of these, 22 lakh were due to deaths, 36 lakh were of people who had permanently shifted or were untraceable and seven lakh were duplicate entries, the poll panel had said then.

The deadline to file additional documents and claims and objections to the draft rolls is September 1.

On Sunday, the poll panel said that the claims and objections period gives an opportunity to electors to not only rectify mistakes in the draft rolls, but also submit their requisite documents that they may not have provided while submitting their enumeration forms.

The Election Commission noted that there were eight days left till September 1 and “just 1.8% electors remaining for submission of the documents”.

Claims and objections have been filed in the cases of 0.16% of the 7.24 crore electors in the draft rolls, the commission said. Of these, a total of 1,21,143 claims or objections were filed by individuals, while 10 were filed by booth-level agents of political parties.

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