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An official receives a form during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll form submission two-day camp at Gawand Baug, in Thane. | Photo Credit: ANI Since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, voter lists of 17 States/Union Territories, where Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is under way in its third phase, have shrunk by 15.7%…
The petitioners challenged the mandate requiring BLAs of political parties to give a personal undertaking certifying they have personally verified all details in the enumeration forms. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Delhi High Court on Thursday (September 3, 2026) ruled that booth level agents of political parties are not liable for verifying all…
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With over 33 lakh voters set to face notices and hearings after the draft electoral roll is published on August 31, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have flagged gaps in their training ahead of the next phase of special intensive revision (SIR) in Delhi. The claims and objections phase, which begins with the publication of the…
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Police said the the accused, Suraj Patil, was making photocopies of SIR forms. Image for representation only | Photo Credit: Ramakrishna G. Five booth-level officers (BLOs) have been suspended after a local BJP worker was caught on Thursday (August 27, 2026) photocopying more than 3,400 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) electoral forms containing voter details at…
1,07,96,415 crore, that is the number of voters facing possible exclusion from the Karnataka’s electoral rolls after being categorised as Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others (ASDDO), following the conclusion of enumeration phase on August 17. At close to1.08 crore, that is close to one-fifth of the State’s electorate. With the draft electoral roll scheduled…
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The Bench also questioned the ECI over a circular issued on July 26 directing school principals not to initiate disciplinary action against teachers for unauthorised leave or absence. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (July 27, 2026) directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that schoolteachers…
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Booth Level Officers (BLOs) verify the enumeration form of residents during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). File | Photo Credit: The Hindu With Haryana completing the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across the State, the names of 33,84,568 electors went unrecorded as a result of permanent relocation, absence, death or duplicate entries….
After receiving her enumeration form, Lakshmi P. (name changed), a 59-year-old voter from Padmanabhanagar, began searching for her details in the 2002 electoral rolls. She sifted through over 120 voters with the same name. Different spellings, the expansion of her initial and even her parents’ names led nowhere. It was only after she found her husband’s 2002…
Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer V. Anbu Kumar. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) under way, residents of several apartment complexes across the city have reported that the purple stickers, which Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are required to paste outside a residence only after ‘successfully distributing’ enumeration forms to voters, are…
State BJP president N. Ramchander Rao and other party leaders speaking to media personnel after meeting Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudarshan Reddy at BRKR Bhavan, in Hyderabad, on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR The Telangana BJP on Tuesday urged the Election Commission to make Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration forms available in English as…