Over 20 lakh electors have been deleted from Odisha's draft electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha S Gopalan said on Sunday, adding that the revised draft roll now contains over 3.13 crore voters.
Gopalan said copies of the revised roll had been provided to all recognised political parties.
“When the SIR process started, there were 3 crore 33 lakh electors. Now, out of that, 20 lakh electors have been deleted and right now we have 3 crore 13 lakh 87 thousand 34 electors. Out of that, 1 crore 60 lakh 19 thousand 176 are male, 1 crore 53 lakh 65 thousand 83 are female, and 2,775 are third gender," Goplan said.
He added that 20,12,557 electors had been removed from the draft roll for various reasons. "Ten lakh seven thousand are deleted because they have shifted or they are absent and 1.58 lakh are deleted because of multiple entries. Fourteen thousand electors have not returned their form for various reasons known to them. Therefore, right now we have in the draft roll three crore thirteen lakh eighty-seven thousand electors," he said.
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Gopalan urged eligible voters to verify their names in the draft electoral roll and submit claims or objections if required. "They are given one month's time from July 4 till August 4. Voters can file their claims and objections with the BLO (booth level officer). And they can verify their name in the draft electoral roll either by visiting the website of CEO Odisha or ECI or by contacting their BLO. If their name is not in the draft roll, then they are requested to file their claim through Form 6," he said.
The CEO further said the revision exercise had uncovered nearly 50 lakh anomalies in the electoral roll, ranging from minor discrepancies to serious mismatches. "All the claims will be settled by September 2. The final roll will be published on September 6," Gopalan said.
"Digitisation is over for the enumeration form and will start again once the claims and objections period ends; whatever claims we have received, we will be verifying them and that will also be digitised," he said.
Ten secretary-level officers have been appointed as electoral roll observers and they will be visiting three to four districts each to supervise the process, Gopalan added.
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