Delhi’s chief electoral officer on Saturday said that around 26 lakh, or 78.5%, of the 33.1 lakh cases flagged for not being linked to the electoral roll of the last special intensive revision or for having a “logical discrepancy” had been resolved, The Hindu reported.
The 33 lakh voters who were issued notices account for about one-third of the 97.5 lakh voters included in the draft electoral roll. Of these, 13.7 lakh were flagged for failing to link themselves to the electoral roll from the last SIR, while 19.3 lakh were issued notices over “logical discrepancies” in their enumeration forms.
Verification of these cases is to be completed by October 29, while the final electoral rolls are slated to be published on November 4.
On September 22, the Supreme Court had taken note of the concerns that the notices issued to voters in the “doubtful” list did not provide sufficient reasons or details. It said voters needed clarity when they were served notices for “logical discrepancies”. It also observed that the notices appeared to have been issued “almost mechanically”.
Delhi had around 1.4 crore electors before the voter roll revision exercise, of whom 47.7 lakh voters were removed from the draft electoral roll published on August 31.
Those removed from the voter list were marked...