Overview
- Online enumeration is now live on the ECI voters’ service portal, with OTP authentication and EPIC–mobile linkage required, and Tamil Nadu’s CEO has added a public search to retrieve details from the 2002 and 2005 SIR rolls.
- In West Bengal, officials reported FIRs against eight booth-level agents and show-cause notices to eight booth-level officers for bypassing door-to-door norms, with a complaint helpline introduced for alleged partisan conduct.
- Form distribution has scaled rapidly: West Bengal reported more than 5.15 crore forms delivered by Sunday evening, Kerala logged 64.45 lakh distributed and is targeting November 25 for completion, and Uttar Pradesh ordered full distribution by November 15 with real-time tracking via the BLO app.
- Kerala’s Chief Electoral Officer reiterated that no identity verification occurs during house-to-house enumeration, with proofs to be sought only in a subsequent phase.
- Tamil Nadu’s DMK and the state Congress have petitioned the Supreme Court challenging the SIR’s legality and potential for disenfranchisement, and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched a public helpline to assist voters with the form.