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The amazingly ample fig of entries successful the Absent, Shifted, Deceased (ASD) database successful immoderate of the polling booths successful Kerala has sparked interest up of the ceremonial work of the draught electoral rolls connected December 23 nether the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
For instance, 1 polling booth successful the Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency – Northern information of East Building of Sree Pattom Thanu Pillai UPS Sreevaraham (No - 138) – has 704 entries successful the ASD list. While 16 are names of deceased voters, the immense majority, 592, person been listed arsenic ‘Untraceable/Absent.’ The day of procreation of the database is fixed arsenic December 17.
In the Vattiyoorkavu constituency, besides successful Thiruvananthapuram district, booth fig 154 (Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom (Western information of main building) has 347 entries successful the ASD list. Of these, the fig of entries successful the ‘EF Refused’ class – wherever electors presumably refused to instrumentality the enumeration forms – is 116. Further, 102 voters person been listed arsenic ‘Untraceable /Absent.’ The day fixed connected the database is December 11.
The ASD database has 5 categories - dormant voters, untraceable/absent voters, permanently shifted, duplicated names and an ‘others’ class which includes radical who diminution to judge oregon instrumentality the enumeration forms (EF Refused). The ASD database present online has a small implicit 24.08 lakh names successful it. This includes 6.45 lakh listed arsenic ‘untraceable,’ and 8.16 lakh categorised arsenic ‘permanently shifted.’ The ‘others’ class has implicit 1.60 names, portion deceased voters fig implicit 6.49 lakh and duplicated names, 1.36 lakh.
Under the SIR process, a small implicit 2.78 crore voters arsenic connected October 27, 2025, successful the electoral rolls had been issued enumeration forms.
However, the unusually ample fig of entries arsenic ‘EF Refused’ and ‘Untraceable’ has been contested by governmental parties including the CPI(M), CPI, Congress and IUML. Blaming the Election Commission’s “uncalled-for haste” successful proceeding with the SIR, they person demanded much clip for tracing these voters and including them successful the electoral rolls. Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar had published the ASD database online astatine the insistence of governmental parties adjacent though the draught SIR rolls volition beryllium retired lone connected December 21. Along with the draft, an updated mentation of the ASD database besides volition beryllium published, according to the CEO.
Meanwhile, this improvement is not confined to Thiruvananthapuram district, but disposable successful municipality locations crossed Kerala. For example, the UP School, Amaravathy booth (North extremity of mediate block) successful Fort Kochi successful the Kochi Assembly constituency successful Ernakulam territory has 302 names successful the list, of which 82 person been categorised arsenic ‘EF Refused’ and 69 arsenic ‘Untraceable.’ In the Kozhikode South constituency, the Zamorins HSS (Western Building) booth has a full of 112 names successful the list, with 85 being listed arsenic ‘Permanently shifted.’
In the polling booth astatine CM LP School Muttathu Kavu (Kizhakke building), successful Thiruvalla Assembly constituency, the ASD database has 112 names, of which 70 are listed arsenic ‘untraceable.’
Mr. Kelkar has clarified that voters tin beryllium enrolled successful the voters’ database adjacent aft the work of the draught rolls and until the past time of the filing of nominations for the 2026 Assembly elections. On Saturday, helium reiterated that the EC’s mandate is to see each eligible voters. Following a ‘Claims and Objections’ filing play from December 23 to January 22 and the announcement signifier which volition past till February 14, the last rolls for Kerala volition beryllium published connected February 21.
