Pune: Notional house numbers assigned to households in the electoral rolls are proving to be a headache for BLOs as they cannot reach voters whose existing addresses are incomplete or inadequate, officials on the ground said.Officials fear that tracing voters with notional house numbers could become even more difficult unless the address details are simultaneously…
Mysuru: Even as close to 20% of voters in Mysuru are likely to be dropped from the draft electoral rolls as the voters were either absent, shifted, dead, duplicate or otherwise unavailable (ASDDO), another 5-10% too are likely to face scrutiny by the election commission because of discrepancies in their records.According to records prior to…
Hyderabad: Chief minister Revanth Reddy on Thursday said in charge ministers and Congress functionaries down to the booth level had not taken adequate responsibility for addressing issues arising during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. He warned that Telangana could risk losing 21% of its votes if the exercise was not handled with…
Ranchi: Election Commission (EC) has approved the appointment of 311 additional assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) across the state to expedite the disposal of claims, objections and discrepancies in voter rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The hearing phase is scheduled to begin on Aug 24.Chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar said on…
The number of voters in the ASDDO category dropped from about 5.77 lakh on Augt 2 to 5.6 lakh as of Aug 10 Mysuru: Around 20,000 voters in the district have managed to get their names cleared from the ASDDO (absent, shifted, dead, duplicate and otherwise unavailable) list in the past week, making use of…
Kolkata: Former mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday welcomed the proposed reorganisation of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) wards but urged the govt to ensure that the exercise does not end up “impacting a specific religious community”. His remarks triggered a furore in the Assembly, with Hakim getting into a heated exchange with BJP MLAs.“I am not…
Hyderabad: TPCC Election Commission Coordination Committee chairperson Pulipati Rajesh Kumar on Monday alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana and expressed concern that genuine voters could be excluded. He said the status of about 1.31 crore electors was ‘in limbo’.Rajesh alleged that the Union govt was using the Election…
Dharwad: JD(S) mahanagar district president Gururaj Hunasimarad on Monday demanded a high-level inquiry into the alleged inclusion of more than 75,000 bogus, duplicate, deceased and shifted voters in the electoral rolls of the Hubballi-Dharwad West Assembly constituency.Addressing a news conference, Hunasimarad said the large-scale discrepancies came to light during the recent comprehensive revision of electoral…
Hyderabad: Nearly 71 lakh electors, about 21% of Telangana’s 3.38 crore electorate, have been identified for deletion from the electoral rolls under the special intensive revision (SIR), with Monday (Aug 10), being the last date for submission of enumeration forms. With only 3.2 lakh forms, or less than 1% of the electorate, still to be…
To facilitate the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) set up registration desks at public places across the city, including the premises of a Gurudwara in Ravet Pune: Villages are racing ahead in digitisation of voter records under Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with booth level officers (BLOs)…
