Over 99% voters served notices during Maharashtra SIR added to electoral rolls
Of the total, 62.5 lakh voters had been issued notices for ‘logical discrepancies’, while 59.7 lakh for not being linked to the electoral roll of 2002.
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More than 99% of the 1.2 crore voters who had been served notices during the special intensive revision in Maharashtra have been added back to the electoral rolls, the Hindustan Times reported on Saturday.
The remaining 72,601 voters who had been served notices are yet to submit documents to verify their identity, or the verification of their details is underway, according to the newspaper.
Of the total, 62.5 lakh voters had been issued notices for “logical discrepancies”, while 59.7 lakh for not being linked to the electoral roll of 2002, when the special intensive revision was last conducted in Maharashtra.
Logical discrepancies refer to what the panel considers inconsistencies such as a mismatch with the spellings of names of the voters’ parents, an unreasonably low gap between the ages of parents and children or if parents have more than six children.
In the draft voter list published on August 31, the names of more than two crore persons were removed from the electoral roll. The electors excluded from the draft account for 21.1% of the state’s voter base before the revision exercise began.
The final voter list will be published on November 30.
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