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- Many Delhi voters who submitted enumeration forms online during the special intensive revision (SIR) found their names missing from the draft electoral roll published on Monday, which dropped nearly 4.76 million or 32.8% of names.
- Officials and political workers attribute the exclusions to technical mismatches between phone numbers used on forms and those linked to Aadhaar or voter IDs, plus verification failures, with some voters wrongly marked dead or shifted.
- Booth level officers say online form submission does not automatically add voters to the roll, as verification calls or visits are still required, and some rejected forms were never communicated to voters.
- Voters can seek inclusion by filing Form 6 during the claims and objections window until September 30, with the final roll due on November 4.
What to watch next
- Number and success of Form 6 inclusion claims filed during the claims and objections window ending September 30
- Whether the EC addresses the online-offline verification gaps and BLO misconduct complaints raised by political parties
- Publication of the final electoral roll on November 4 after disposal of claims by October 29
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Anish Kumar Jha
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“Many people think that the online process ends with form submission and then don’t bother reaching out to the BLOs. When a form is submitted online, it is not automatically added to the roll. A BLO still needs to verify the submission via a phone call or a physical visit.”
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…shocking,” he said. Booth level officers (BLOs), electoral registration officers (EROs), and political workers attribute this phenomenon to a misunderstanding of the process. Anish Kumar Jha, a BLO in Jangpura, said, “ Many people think that the online process ends with form submission and then don’t bother reaching out to the BLOs. When a form is submitted online, it is not automatically added to the roll. A BLO still needs to verify the submission via a phone call or a physical visit. ” For this process, a BLO needs to call the number linked with the online application. In several cases, this number does not match the one linked to the voter’s Aadhaar or existing voter ID, leading to what officers…
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