Delhi to Exclude 47.7 Lakh Voters From Draft Electoral Roll

The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi will exclude approximately 47.7 lakh of the city's 1.45 crore registered voters from the draft electoral roll to be published on August 24. This follows a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) house-to-house enumeration exercise conducted from June 30 to August 17, during which 13,000 booth-level officers attempted to verify the electorate. Only 67% of the forms were successfully digitized, with the remaining voters marked as uncollectible due to death, duplicate entries, or residents moving without updating their voter cards.

This deletion rate is the highest recorded in India, surpassing previous highs in Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Arunachal Pradesh. To further refine the list, an AI-assisted system flagged over 33 lakh voters for additional verification due to logical inconsistencies in family data and other anomalies. Similar exercises in Nagpur saw a 68.75% digitization rate, leaving 14.26 lakh voters uncollectible.

Excluded voters can file claims and objections using Form 6 between August 24 and September 23. The final electoral rolls for both Delhi and Nagpur are scheduled for publication on October 27.