Overview

• The Election Commission’s June 24 order required one of 11 specified documents from voters not found on the 2003 rolls.
• Aadhaar was later permitted by the Supreme Court as a 12th identity document after initial exclusion of Aadhaar, ration cards and even EPIC.
• Field instructions shifted to tracing voters to the 2003 list or establishing eligibility through family links, with 77% ultimately linked (52% directly, 25% via relatives).
• Officials also used state datasets such as family registers, the Mahadalit Vikas Register and caste survey records to verify eligibility.
• The final revision removed 68.6 lakh entries tied to deaths, migration or duplicates and added 21.5 lakh new voters ahead of the November Assembly elections.