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Election Commission: The Election Commission is going to start a special intensive revision (SIR) soon. Like Bihar, dead voters in all states will be removed from the voter list.
Election Commission: The Election Commission is going to start a special intensive revision (SIR) soon for fair and transparent elections in the country. Like Bihar, dead voters in all states will be removed from the voter list. In the near future, special intensive revision (SIR) of voter lists in all states will see a tendency like Bihar, where after many years millions of dead persons were removed from the voter list. The Election Commission believes that once the system of connecting the registrar of the registrar of birth and death with the election machinery, the issue of the deceased persons being part of the voter list will eventually be resolved. There were 7.89 crore voters in the state before the SIR started in Bihar.
Blo does not have information about death
After the commencement of SIR, there were 7.24 crore voters in the draft roll published on August 1, as about 65 lakh names were removed, including 22 lakh dead persons. In August, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dnyanesh Kumar had said that about 22 lakh voters, identified as deceased in Bihar, did not die recently, but perhaps it was not recorded in the past. He said that unless people report the death in their families, booth level officials (BLO) have no means to get information about such cases. This process is more link during intensive revision, so the Election Commission is more cautious about removing the names of those who have either died or they have gone elsewhere.
RGI will be verified
To update the voter list rapidly and to make it error-free, the Election Officer will now receive the death registration data from India’s General Registration (RGI) electronically. This will ensure that the voter registration officers (EROs) get information about the registered death and the BLOs can recreate the information through the field visit without waiting for the formal request of the deceased’s families. An official said that people do not get any encouragement to inform the election officials about the death in their families. But once the data linkage is installed, the presence of deceased persons in the voter list will eventually end. The officer said that once the data linkage with RGI and municipal and rural bodies is firmly established, the voter list will be more error free.
Also read: Last voter list released after SIR in Bihar, 1.63 lakh voters connected in Patna
