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With the house-to-house enumeration signifier of the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation ending connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) successful Kerala, predetermination officials are readying a thrust to enrol caller voters erstwhile the draught SIR rotation gets published connected December 23.
The peculiar thrust volition absorption connected enrolling caller voters who person turned 18 years of property and different citizens who person not yet enrolled, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar said.
Election officials person already received 2.92 lakh applications successful Form 6 which is the exertion signifier for caller enrollments. As galore arsenic 15,157 applications person besides been received successful Form 6A, which is the signifier for overseas electors. These applications volition beryllium processed aft December 23, Mr. Kelkar said.
On the enumeration phase, Mr. Kelkar said digitisation of the enumeration forms touched 100% astatine 10 a.m. connected Thursday.
The fig of uncollectable forms (absent, shifted, dormant (ASD) voters) stands astatine 24.81 lakh. Of this, deceased voters relationship for 6.49 lakh. Untraceable voters fig 6.89 lakh, shifted voters 8.21 lakh, duplicated names 1.34 lakh and others, 1.86 lakh. “This is astir 8.91% of the existing electorate,” Mr. Kelkar said.
Following a petition from governmental parties, Mr. Kelkar’s bureau has already published the ASD database online connected its website. An updated ASD list, incorporating corrections and including voters who person been tracked down, volition beryllium published alongside the draught SIR rolls connected December 23. The database has besides been handed implicit to the booth-level agents of governmental parties truthful that they tin besides assistance successful tracing the missing voters, Mr. Kelkar said.
Claims and objections
Claims and objections with respect to the draught rolls tin beryllium filed from December 23 to January 22, 2026. The announcement and proceeding play lasts from December 23 to February 14. The last electoral rotation volition beryllium published connected February 21. Nonetheless, arsenic per predetermination rules, additions and deletions successful the rotation tin beryllium made till the last time of filing the nominations for the 2026 Assembly elections, Mr. Kelkar said.
Hearings and appeals
In lawsuit a voter’s sanction is excluded from the rotation aft the hearing, the archetypal entreaty tin beryllium filed earlier the District Election Officer (District Collector) wrong 15 days of the ERO’s order. The 2nd entreaty tin beryllium filed earlier the CEO wrong 30 days of the Collector’s order.
30,498 polling booths for Assembly polls
Kerala volition person 30,498 polling stations for the 2026 Assembly elections. In summation to the 25,468 existing stations, 5,030 caller polling stations volition beryllium added, Mr. Kelkar said.
