Overview
- Draft electoral rolls were published for multiple states and union territories on Thursday, November 12, triggering the SSR 2027 claims-and-objections window that runs until December 11 with final lists due in early January.
- States reporting notable net changes include Assam, whose draft adds 2,18,771 names to reach 25,176,910 electors, and Keralam, whose SSR draft lists about 27.36 million voters.
- Rajasthan’s SSR draft lists about 52.66 million electors, roughly 11 lakh more than its post-SIR count, creating a visible discrepancy between the routine SSR tally and earlier intensive SIR figures.
- Officials handed hard and soft copies of draft rolls to recognised parties and made lists available at polling stations, on the Voter Helpline app and the ECI portal, while special camps and help desks were set up to process Form 6/6A/7/8 applications.
- The SSR process starts from the last published roll and updates it through additions, deletions and corrections, unlike the SIR house-to-house re‑enumeration that rebuilds the list from scratch, a difference that helps explain the state-level mismatches and is driving requests such as a possible two-week SIR extension in Delhi to re‑verify about 47.6 lakh excluded voters.