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Ballari territory volition undertake a Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-2026 of electoral rolls, including a door-to-door elector verification thrust from June 30, arsenic portion of an inaugural by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hole an close and error-free voters’ list.
Addressing a property league astatine the VC Hall of the caller District Administrative Complex successful Ballari connected June 4, District Election Officer and Deputy Commissioner K. Nagendra Prasad said each eligible national has a work not lone to enactment successful the antiauthoritarian process done voting, but besides to guarantee that his oregon her sanction is correctly enrolled successful the electoral roll.
“The peculiar revision workout is aimed astatine ensuring that nary eligible elector is near retired and that the electoral rotation remains transparent, inclusive and escaped from errors,” helium said.
Door-to-door verification by BLOs
Explaining the process, the Deputy Commissioner said the ongoing peculiar revision was importantly antithetic from the regular yearly revision of electoral rolls.
As portion of the exercise, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) volition compulsorily sojourn each household covered nether the electoral rotation published connected January 1, 2025, to verify elector details successful person. While regular revisions mostly impact applications for inclusion, deletion, transposition and correction done Forms 6, 7 and 8, the contiguous workout involves nonstop tract verification of each voter.
BLOs volition sojourn each location from June 30 to July 21 and administer a two-page Enumeration Form supplied by the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. The signifier volition beryllium disposable successful some Kannada and English. One transcript of the completed signifier volition beryllium collected by the BLO, portion the 2nd copy, duly acknowledged, volition beryllium returned to the elector arsenic impervious of submission.
Voters whitethorn usage the acknowledgement receipt to record claims oregon objections if immoderate discrepancy is noticed successful the electoral rotation during the revision process. BLOs person been entrusted with the work of uploading and submitting elector details to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) done the BLO App.
Eligibility day and schedule
Mr. Prasad said the ECI had initiated the peculiar revision nether Section 21 of the Representation of the People Act. Karnataka is presently covered nether the 3rd signifier of the exercise.
October 1, 2026, has been fixed arsenic the qualifying day for the revision, meaning each citizens who attain the property of 18 years connected oregon earlier that day volition beryllium eligible for enrolment.
The docket includes last grooming of officials from June 20 to 29, house-to-house verification from June 30 to July 21, rationalisation of polling stations by July 29, work of the draught electoral rotation connected August 5, filing of claims and objections from August 5 to September 4, disposal of claims and objections by October 3, and work of the last electoral rotation connected October 7.
Over 97% elector mapping completed
The Deputy Commissioner said the territory had achieved important occurrence successful elector mapping done the usage of exertion and systematic verification.
Of the 12,28,958 voters successful the 2025 electoral rolls, arsenic galore arsenic 12,00,463 voters – accounting for 97.68% – person already been successfully mapped with their household records utilizing information from the 2002 electoral rolls. Special efforts volition beryllium undertaken successful the coming days to hint and representation the remaining 28,495 voters.
No supporting documents required initially
Mr. Prasad clarified that BLOs would not importune connected supporting documents portion collecting the enumeration signifier from voters.
Even if signifier are incomplete, BLOs volition assistance applicants successful filling them correctly. Forms carrying the voter’s sanction and signature volition beryllium accepted. In cases wherever accusation is incomplete, notices volition subsequently beryllium issued by the Electoral Registration Officer seeking further details and documents earlier claims oregon objections are disposed of.
He added that BLOs person been instructed to sojourn locked houses astatine slightest 3 times astatine tenable intervals earlier concluding verification.
