Manipur SIR: Over 6% voters removed from final list

Electoral registration officers in Manipur on Sunday published photo electoral rolls for all of the state’s 60 Assembly constituencies as part of the special intensive revision process.

The total number of voters in Manipur as per the final electoral rolls stands at 19,60,620, while the number of voters before the publication of the draft list was 20,93,076. This means that 6.33% voters were left out of the voter rolls after the final list was published.

The Manipur chief electoral officer said that 1,58,677 voters whose enumeration forms were not received back were excluded from the draft electoral rolls.

The draft electoral rolls, which had 19,34,399 voters, were published on July 5. Out of these voters, a total of 18,43,221 were mapped either as self or as the children of voters, while 91,178 voters were unmapped.

The authorities issued notices to the unmapped voters, as well as to 11,30,655 voters with “logical discrepancies”, which refer to situations such as a mismatch in parents’ names, a small age gap between parents and children or parents being recorded as having more than six children.

Over 96,000 claims and objections were filed from July 5 to August 4, and were processed for the final rolls.

At the end of this process, a total of 56,871 voters were included in the...

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