Karnataka SIR: 19% voters removed from draft list

The names of more than one crore persons were removed from the draft voter list of Karnataka published on Monday as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, Moneycontrol reported.

The state had 4.4 crore voters in the draft roll as compared to the 5.5 crore before the exercise began in June. The names not included in the draft roll account for 19.4% of the state’s electorate.

While 65.4 lakh voters have been marked as permanently shifted, 12.3 lakh had died, 15.1 lakh were absent and 7 lakh names were duplicate entries. More than 3.8 lakh were placed under the “other” category. It was unclear what the other category was.

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, Moneycontrol quoted the Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukumar as saying.

The 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.

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