Overview

• Only 0.16% of the 7.24 crore electors have filed claims or objections so far, including 1,21,143 individual submissions and about ten from booth-level agents of parties.
• The draft rolls published on 1 August excluded roughly 65.6 lakh names, attributed to deaths (≈22 lakh), permanent shifts or untraceable voters (≈36 lakh) and duplicates (≈7 lakh).
• Verification and decisions on claims and eligibility documents are due by 25 September, with final electoral rolls scheduled for publication on 30 September.
• The Supreme Court has allowed excluded persons to apply online and to use Aadhaar among accepted documents, and it directed recognised parties to mobilise their booth-level agents to assist voters.
• Opposition groups allege that party workers face hurdles filing objections and that poor, migrant and Dalit voters are disproportionately affected, while on-the-ground reports show uneven awareness and document access in marginalised hamlets.