The names of more than 99.3 lakh voters have been deleted from Karnataka’s final voter list published on Tuesday following the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
The number of voters fell to 4.5 crore from 5.5 crore that were on the state’s electoral rolls before the exercise began. This amounts to a decrease of about 17.9%.
In the final stage of the exercise, more than 8.6 lakh names were reinstated to the draft list, which had excluded over one crore voters in August.
Persons who applied for inclusion through Form 6 after Friday, when the period for claims and objections ended, would be added through supplementary lists to be published on a quarterly basis, The Hindu reported. Form 6 is used to register new voters.
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Karnataka is among the 19 states and Union Territories where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR.
The enumeration phase of the exercise in Karnataka began on June 30.
At the end of the draft stage, 65.4 lakh voters had been marked as permanently shifted, 12.3 lakh as dead, 15.1 lakh as absent and 7 lakh as duplicate entries. The highest deletions were recorded in Bengaluru’s urban districts.
The state Election Commission had said at the time...