BENGALURU: The special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral list ended in Karnataka on Friday. The SIR process undertaken by the Election Commission of India on June 20 concluded with the filing of objections and notice disposal process.
With this, the process of dropping ineligible voters ends and the final voter list will be published on October 27. The draft voter list was published on August 24 and and opportunity for claims and objections was given from August 24 to September 23.
Lakhs of objections have been filed and notices were issued to 43 lakh unmapped and anonymous voters and inquiry was also conducted. Lakhs of applications have been filed under Form 6 and Form 7 also. Now, the countdown has started for publication of the final voter list on October 27.
Out of the total 5.54 crore voters, the names of 4.46 crore voters were published in the draft list. About 1.7 crore voters names are being dropped. In Bengaluru, 57 lakh voters names will be published and about 47 lakh voters names will be deleted.
