About one fourth of the voters who submitted their enumeration forms during the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll are likely to receive notices from electoral registration officers (EROs). They will be required to provide documents to back their claims.
With about 70 per cent of the forms digitised, covering about 2.36 crore voters, the number of forms stood at about 57 lakh. Hyderabad district recorded 10 per cent anomalies though less than half the forms have been digitised.
“During the claims and objections period, the Election Commission of India will take up the issue of anomalies and people will have to provide supporting documents. For instance if there is a mismatch of the name or photograph, the voter may receive a notice. This will be handled by the officials at ERO level,” informed an official.
The present phase of enumerations will conclude on August 3 and the publication of the draft electoral roll has been scheduled for August 10. This will also kick-start the period for filing claims and objections, between August 10 and September 9.
Parallely, the notice phase, disposal of claims and objections will begin on August 10 and will continue till October 8. The publication of the final electoral roll will be October 12.
Categories under logical discrepancy (anomalies) include less than nine months gap between progeny (siblings); less than 15-year or more than 50-year age gap between progeny and parent; less than 40-year age gap between elector and grandparent; different parent name between current roll and previous SIR of 2002; mapping done with different relative type between current roll and previous SIR (father/mother); mapped with the husband in the current roll and with the father in the previous SIR; different father names in current electoral roll and last SIR ; incorrect age difference between current and last SIR; absence of any kind of document — zero documents ; aadhaar being the sole document and more than six children linked to a person
Besides anomalies by July 23, close to 24 lakhs (over 10 %) were categorised as ‘uncollectable forms’. Officials explained that those bracketed under this category come under ASDDF (Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate, and Foreign) criteria, who are ineligible voters targeted for removal, during the ongoing SIR exercise.
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