The number of applications for fresh enrolment in Delhi’s voter list has crossed 5.15 lakh since the start of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), with over 3.02 lakh applications received after the draft roll was published on August 31, according to official data. Between August 31 and November 10, voters submitted 3,02,694 Form 6 applications to seek inclusion in the electoral roll, taking the cumulative number to 5,15,094, data showed.
The Delhi election authorities are set to begin distributing fresh enumeration forms to nearly 47.5 lakh electors excluded from the draft roll by the end of this week as part of a re-verification exercise to facilitate their inclusion in the final electoral roll, officials said.
The draft electoral roll, published on August 31, contained around 97.5 lakh electors, down from nearly 1.45 crore at the start of the revision exercise. Around 47.5 lakh names, accounting for nearly 32.8 per cent of the electorate, were excluded after enumeration forms could not be collected from them during the initial house-to-house exercise.
These voters were categorised as Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD).
The fresh distribution of enumeration forms is separate from the verification of nearly 33.1 lakh voters who were issued notices over logical discrepancies or lack of mapping with the 2002 electoral roll. These voters were included in the draft roll but were asked to establish their eligibility through supporting documents.
The Election Commission has extended the deadline for filing claims and objections from October 31 to November 25.
The Election Commission expects to complete the disposal of claims and objections by December 15, while the final electoral roll is slated for publication on December 22.