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- The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer has issued notices to 3.31 million voters as part of a special electoral roll revision.
- Nearly 1.9 million of these voters were flagged under a category called logical discrepancy, which is intended to detect irregularities.
- Critics argue the system is opaque and disproportionately affects poor voters who lack resources to contest the claims compared to VIPs.
- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a petition regarding the transparency and guidelines of this flagging process.
What to watch next
- Supreme Court hearing on September 22 regarding voter notice transparency
- Process for voters to respond to notices until October 29
- Publication of final electoral roll on November 4
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OP Rawat
former chief election commissioner
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“When a notice is sent to a sitting or former chief minister, the external affairs minister or India's former army chief, there should be something substantive in it. This has become a big mess.”
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…being generated. Today, we saw how so many VVIPs have received notices. ECI has also come out with a clarification that a notice does not mean automatic deletion. But why should you even need a clarification like this? When a notice is sent to a sitting or former chief minister, the external affairs minister or India's former army chief, there should be something substantive in it. This has become a big mess. With Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta and Arvind Kejriwal both receiving discrepancy notices along with several other VVIPs, does their appearance on this list validate the SIR process as impartial or does it simply…
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