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The fig of voters listed arsenic untraceable, dormant oregon permanently shifted successful Kerala has risen to a small implicit 20 lakh, adjacent arsenic the Election Commission of India connected Friday extended the docket of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by a week successful the State.
As per the latest updates, Kerala has 20,75,381 persons successful the database of ‘uncollectables,’ which refers to enumeration forms of individuals who are dormant (6,11,559), untraceable (5,66,182), permanently shifted/absent (7,39,205), who person their names duplicated successful the rolls (1,12,569) and the ‘others’ class (45,866).
Just a week ago, the full fig had stood astatine a small implicit 8.80 lakh.
Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar, told a play reappraisal gathering attended by governmental parties present connected Saturday that the further clip granted by the EC volition beryllium utilized to hint the missing voters and adhd their names to the rolls.
Mr. Kelkar said meetings betwixt the EC-appointed booth-level officers (BLO) and booth-level agents (BLA) appointed by the governmental parties would spell a agelong mode successful helping this verification process. So far, 6,475 BLO-BLA meetings person been held crossed the State.
If the BLO finds that the elector is deceased, the elector is marked arsenic dormant nether the uncollectables category. If section enquiry reveals that the elector has permanently shifted, the elector is marked arsenic ‘Permanently Shifted oregon Absent.’ In cases wherever a elector has 2 entries astatine antithetic locations and chooses one, the different introduction is classified arsenic ‘Duplicate.’ If voters explicitly authorities that they bash not privation to judge the forms, oregon that they volition not beryllium returning them, the lawsuit is marked nether ‘Others.’
Bowing to a request from governmental parties, the CEO said that helium tin convene an online gathering with organisations representing overseas electors. Although the CEO’s bureau had requested Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (NoRKA) section to clasp the meeting, the second is yet to comply. This had drawn crisp disapproval from governmental parties which urged the CEO to personally convene the meeting.
On Friday, the EC had extended Kerala’s SIR docket by a week. The extebnsion had travel aft Kerala placed a petition with the support of the Supreme Court. The enumeration signifier volition present past till December 18. The draught electoral rolls volition beryllium published connected December 23. Claims and objections tin beryllium filed from December 23 to January 22, 2026. The ‘notice phase’ (hearings and verification) volition past from December 23 to February 14. The last rolls volition beryllium published connected February 21, 2026.
