Odisha SIR: Over 17 lakh names deleted from final voter list
The voters in the state reduced to 3.1 crore from 3.3 crore before the exercise began, a decrease of 5.2%.
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The names of more than 17.6 lakh persons were deleted from Odisha’s final voter list published on Monday following the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, The Hindu quoted the state Election Commission as saying.
The voters in the state reduced to 3.16 crore from 3.33 crore before the exercise began, a decrease of about 5.2%.
Odisha is among the 19 states and Union Territories where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR.
The enumeration phase of the SIR in Odisha began on May 30.
On Monday, Chief Electoral Officer RS Gopalan said that 3.1 crore enumeration forms were received from voters. This accounted for 93.9% of the total electorate.
More than 20 lakh voters whose forms were not received had been excluded from the draft list published in July. Among the excluded voters, 8.3 lakh had been marked as deceased, 2 lakh as absent, 8.1 lakh as having shifted and 1.6 lakh as duplicate entries.
Voters filed claims and objections against their exclusion between July 5 and August 19. About 2.5 lakh appeals were received and processed before the final roll was prepared, The Hindu cited data from the chief electoral officer as having shown.
After the hearings, more than 24,000 voters were found ineligible for inclusion in the final roll. More than 20,700 names...
