Overview
- The Special Intensive Revision, now in mid-to-late operations, has provisionally flagged very large numbers of voters for removal with Haryana reporting about 34.02 lakh names, Chandigarh 66,147 and Manipur 1,58,677 as of July 24.
- Officials say many exclusions reflect mobility and ASDDO classifications — absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate and others — and that flagged names are not final deletions but subject to verification.
- Digitisation of filled enumeration forms is uneven and slow in major cities, with Delhi at roughly 41 percent digitised and Greater Bengaluru about 34 percent, creating backlogs that officials say threaten timely verification.
- State election chiefs and district collectors have ordered reviews and redeployments of staff to meet deadlines, and the Delhi High Court has asked the Election Commission to respond to a PIL challenging mass deployment of teachers as enumeration staff.
- The next steps are publication of staggered draft rolls, short claims-and-objections windows and an appeals route to EROs and district authorities that, election officials say, will determine which provisional exclusions become final.