Bengaluru: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Karnataka has removed 99.32 lakh voters from the final electoral rolls, which will be published on Tuesday.
Karnataka will have 4.55 crore voters in the final electoral rolls.
Before SIR started, the state’s electoral rolls had 5.54 crore voters.
According to the final electoral roll, there are more women voters than men. There are 2.29 crore women voters against 2.25 crore men.
The SIR in Karnataka started on June 30.
After house-to-house visits by booth-level officers (BLO), more than a crore voters were put under the Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate (ASDD) list.
Plus, a total of 43.82 lakh notices were served to voters citing ‘logical discrepancies’ in their SIR enumeration forms.
So far, the Election Commission has received 10.42 lakh Form-6 applications seeking fresh inclusions into the electoral roll.
There was a huge controversy over alleged attempts to delete voters in bulk. While Chief Minister DK Shivakumar claimed that 50 lakh Form-7 applications, seeking deletion of voters, had been printed in Karnataka.
The Election Commission, however, has said that it received a total of 2.28 lakh Form-7 applications.
Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukkumar has claimed that “not a single name” had been deleted based on the Form-7 applications.






