Overview
- The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision uses house-to-house enumeration forms to verify voters and has so far digitised large volumes of data while marking many electors as ASDD, meaning absent, shifted, deceased or duplicate.
- State reports show very high ASDD tallies: Andhra recorded more than 15 lakh deceased and 14 lakh shifted voters, Haryana reported about 33.8 lakh names unrecorded for relocation, death or duplication, and several districts have already prepared to publish draft rolls on July 31.
- Progress is uneven with rural districts reporting near-complete distribution and digitisation but major cities lagging; Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad show slower upload rates and face practical problems such as voters keeping village registrations and language or ID mismatches.
- Operational fixes and inclusion efforts are being deployed, including extra field time in Delhi, self-help group workers in Pune, special camps in Jharkhand and targeted tracing of nomadic communities in Karnataka, while electors can seek re‑entry or corrections using Form 6/7/8 during claims windows.
- Legal scrutiny intensified when a Public Interest Litigation was heard in the Karnataka High Court on July 27 challenging deletions without individual notice and asking the Election Commission to clarify procedures set by the Supreme Court, a development that could alter SIR timelines or notice rules.