Overview

• CEC Gyanesh Kumar set a seven-day deadline for an affidavit to substantiate vote-theft claims or a public apology, warning that failure will signal the allegations are unfounded.
• The commission said its Special Intensive Revision began on June 24 with over 90,000 booth-level officers distributing enumeration forms to 7.89 crore voters and recovering 7.24 crore responses so far.
• Officials emphasized that duplicate entries on the voter list reflect administrative discrepancies and legally differ from the act of casting more than one vote.
• Citing a 2019 Supreme Court privacy ruling, the EC rejected demands for machine-readable voter data while confirming that claimants may submit Aadhaar documents to restore names on the draft roll.
• The commission reiterated that its doors remain open for formal complaints and urged political leaders to pursue any evidence through proper legal or evidentiary channels.