Overview
- The Election Commission published draft rolls on July 31 for Andhra Pradesh and Haryana that show large-scale exclusions with Andhra removing about 44.89 lakh names and Haryana excluding about 33.8 lakh names after house-to-house verification.
- Jharkhand finished enumeration with 4.37 million enumeration forms uncollected including about 7.63 lakh forms linked to deceased voters, and its draft roll is scheduled for publication on August 5 with a final roll on October 7.
- Telangana’s SIR enumeration deadline was extended to August 10 and the draft roll moved to August 17 because only about 77% of returned forms had been digitised statewide and Hyderabad lagged at roughly 56%; the final roll is now set for October 19.
- Odisha’s period for filing claims and objections was extended to August 19 because floods and data mismatches slowed work, with disposal of objections pushed to September 17 and the final roll now due on September 21.
- Voters removed from draft lists can seek reinstatement through the claims-and-objections process by filing prescribed forms with Booth Level Officers and EROs and can appeal ERO decisions to the district magistrate and then the state CEO under statutory rules.