99.4% of 1.2cr voters issued SIR notices in Maharashtra verified | Mumbai News

(Representative image) In Maharashtra, a significant review of the electoral roll has revealed that 1.2 crore voters had flagged anomalies or unmapped status

MUMBAI: As many as 99.4% of the 1.2 crore electors flagged for anomalies or unmapped status in the state’s draft electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have cleared scrutiny and will be retained on the draft list, according to the latest data released by election officials. The final SIR voter list is scheduled to be published on Nov 30.The development comes against the backdrop of nearly 2 crore voters being excluded from the pre-SIR electoral roll on Aug 31. Only 15.1 lakh applications seeking inclusion through Form 6 – first-time voters as well as those excluded – have been received till the penultimate day on Nov 12. Of them, 1.4 lakh are from Mumbai.

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The numbers could improve further because the remaining names are still being processed. “This shows that in 99.4 % cases, the documents and information supplied by the voters who had been issued notices were found to be satisfactory,” said a senior official from the state’s Chief Electoral Office.Among key cities, highest verification rate from Thane & Mumbai suburbanMaharashtra’s pre-SIR voter list had 9.8 crore voters. The draft, however, has 7.7 crore electors, because enumeration forms of others could not be collected. The draft list was published on August 31.Notices were then issued to 1.2 crore voters from the 7.7 crore voters on the draft list for additional documents and scrutiny. Of these, 62.5 lakh electors were issued notices on account of anomalies (details including name, age, address) compared to details on the earlier electoral roll in the state. And 59.7 lakh electors had been issued notices on the basis of their unmapped status.The data shows that of the 62.5 lakh voters issued notices for anomalies, 99.6% cleared the verification. Of the 59.7 lakh voters issued notices for their unmapped status, 99.2% cleared the verification. Of the total voters found eligible after scrutiny for both anomalies and their unmapped status, the highest verification rate was from the tribal district of Nandurbar in North Maharashtra (99.99 %) followed by Wardha, Gadchiroli and Nasik (99.90%). The lowest verification rate was in Marathwada’s Jalna (96.83%) and Nanded (96.18%).For key cities, the verification rate was: Mumbai City (99.61%), Mumbai Suburban (99.73%), Thane (99.88%) and Pune (98.91%). The ECI had made major changes in the SIR procedure after a newspaper investigation.